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Enhanced Data Security Solutions on the Anvil
By
ChannelTimes Staff
International Desk, Apr 8, 2008
Cisco Systems, the networking company, and EMC Corporation, the developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions, plan to expand their alliance to offer customers data security solutions that span different layers of the information technology (IT) infrastructure, including storage, servers, networks and data center security.
The companies plan to develop integrated products, services and best practices by taking advantage of resources and technology from Cisco, EMC, and RSA, the security division of EMC. These will be designed to provide customers with the ability to discover, secure, track and enforce the usage of sensitive data stored in the data center and at desktop and server endpoints, as well as while sensitive data is transmitted across enterprise networks.
"The data security market is very fragmented with add-on point tools at every layer of the IT stack which leads to management complexity for customers," said Robert Gleichauf, chief technology officer of enterprise, services and security at Cisco. "Cisco, along with EMC and RSA, are strongly positioned to provide a holistic approach to addressing businesses' data security needs encompassing products, services, and best practice processes across the network and the other layers of the IT infrastructure."
Dennis Hoffman, vice president and general manager for data security and chief strategy officer at RSA, said, "Due to regulatory and non-regulatory drivers, customers need to secure sensitive data and gain stronger visibility into where that data resides. By developing solutions with Cisco, customers can discover, monitor, and enforce the use of sensitive data directly into the infrastructure no matter where it moves, how it moves or where it is stored."
Cisco and RSA intend to collaborate in various areas of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and provide a rich set of DLP professional service offerings to enterprise customers. Cisco intends to integrate data-classification technology from RSA's DLP Suite with Cisco's DLP capabilities in the network and on desktop and server endpoints, and RSA plans to take advantage of Cisco policy enforcement capabilities with the RSA DLP Suite.
The companies also intend to expand their collaboration in PCI compliance, data center security, data encryption, and key management.
Customers will soon be able to encrypt data-at-rest stored on tapes and virtual tapes through the integration of Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Media Encryption (SME) and the RSA Key Manager. This integrated solution is scheduled to be available via EMC in May and will be designed to provide enterprise key management for customers who plan to encrypt sensitive data-at-rest.
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