Cisco, RSA tie up to secure data

Mumbai, May 24: Extending their strategic alliance, networking major Cisco and RSA, the Security Division of EMC, today announced they are working together to develop technology that will help customers improve and simplify the encryption of confidential information, such as medical records, social security and credit card numbers.

Together, these technologies will help customers encrypt data-at-rest on tapes and other types of storage media and manage the associated encryption keys within the storage area network infrastructure.

The planned Cisco and RSA technology will include Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME), which provides encryption of data-at-rest as a fabric service, and RSA Key Manager, a centralized solution for encryption key lifecycle management. This Storage Media Encryption technology will help enable customers to meet various regulatory and privacy requirements by helping to ensure that confidential information is not compromised if a storage tape or disk is lost or stolen. The impending technology will also support an open API (Application Programming Interface) for key management, giving customers the flexibility to deploy stored, encrypted data solutions that best meet their operational needs.

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