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12 Reasons to Protect Your Data with Zserver Storage

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

1. Server Data Encryption

Transparently encrypt data on servers using the latest adaptive multithreaded encryption (AME) patent-pending technology.

2. Disk Access Control

Control applications and systems allowed to access your encrypted data store.

3. Backup Data Encryption

Apply AME protection to backup tapes and other backup storage media.

4. Integration with Prominent Backup Systems

Encrypt backup media using your current backup systems such as BrightStor, ARCserve, Veritas, Backup Exec, and others.

5. Persistent Encryption Algorithms

Protect data using strong AES with 256-bit keys, loading keys only in RAM memory (never written to a hard drive).

6. Encryption Key Quorums

Split encryption keys into multiple fragments and set a minimum number of fragments required to reassemble a key.

7. Enterprise Key Management Server (EKMS)

Generate, store, auto-load and manage keys across the enterprise.

8. Security in Cloud Computing

Use EKMS to load your keys to “cloud computing” servers.

9. Integration with Windows Active Directory

Use native Windows authentication. Assign Active Directory users (groups).

10. High Performance Support of Clustering

Perform data encryption using adaptive multithreaded encryption technology. Utilize your clustered CPU power.

11. Easy Installation and Management

Install and update software components using Installation Wizard. Remotely manage using a single console.

12. Integration with Other Zecurion Products

Manage all other aspects of data security including lockdown of perimeter endpoints, email and messaging communications from one source.

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12 Reasons You Should Be Using Zserver Suite

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Even the best network security is not impenetrable, and despite your best efforts attackers may one day infiltrate your organization. However, just because attackers make it past the perimeter defenses shouldn’t mean they have free access to sensitive information. That data should be properly protected even on the internal network.

Zserver Storage not only prevents leakage of confidential corporate data, but actually hides the data’s existence from unauthorized access and personnel. The information is available only when a network administrator grants a user or application proper access rights to the protected data. Zserver Storage functions transparently for both network administrators and end users with the encryption of data performed in real-time as a background process.

To learn more about Zserver Suite, and why you should be using it to protect your sensitive data, read 12 Reasons Why Zserver Suite Is the Ultimate Data Protection.

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Cord Blood Registry Learns Hard Lesson

Friday, March 4th, 2011

What happens when you leave a laptop and backup tapes holding unencrypted sensitive customer data in your car? Simple–someone breaks into aforementioned vehicle and steals them–leading to a data breach affecting 300,000 customers.

Cord Blood Registry, the world’s largest stem cell bank, learned this lesson the hard way. Hopefully, your data is already protected–especially on laptops and backup media. If not, hopefully you will learn from CBR’s mistake and won’t have to go through the painful process of learing the lesson the hard way as well.

The lax data protection is a combination of a false sense of security, combined with being oblivious to the risk, mixed with a healthy dose of feeling like the solution is too complex or costly. CBR should have had policies in place mandating that data on laptops and backup media be encrypted to prevent exposure or compromise. More importantly, it should have had tools in place that simplifiy and automate that process so that data protection isn’t reliant solely on an individual user’s ability to follow that policy.

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Portable Data is Often an Easy Target

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

There are certainly benefits and advantages to being able to carry massive amounts of files and data in your pocket. However, the small size and gargantuan storage capacities also make portable media very easy to lose or misplace, and a prime target for criminals.

Whether it is a USB thumb drive, an external hard drive, a smartphone, a tablet, or some other device, it is not uncommon for people to have 32GB, 64GB, or even a terabyte of data on them. The data could be a music library or albums of personal photos, or it could be an entire patient or student database–complete with Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, home addresses, and other valuable information.

According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting consumer privacy and raising awareness of privacy concerns, there were 142 reported data breach incidents in 2010 involving portable storage devices. Those incidents led to the compromise or exposure of nearly 7 million records. That amounts to 7 million possible cases of identity theft or credit fraud, or 7 million violations of security and privacy mandates such as HIPAA or PCI DSS.

It is important that organizations limit the types of data that are allowed to be stored or transported on portable media, and that data that is stored on portable devices is properly protected so that–even if the device is lost or stolen–the data it contains will be safe.

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Admins Spending More on Data Protection in 2011

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

The economy is far from fully recovered, but at least there are some positive signs that it is still heading in the right direction. A recent CommVault survey of IT storage spending plans for 2011 indicates that many budgets are increasing, and that spending specifically on data protection tools and technologies could be as much as double the norm for some companies.

An eWeek.com post regarding the survey reports, “In this survey, nearly 80 percent of storage administrators reported that their IT spending budgets would either be increased slightly or maintained at 2010 levels. About 80 percent of those polled reported that they will allocate as much as 20 percent of their budgets on data-protection hardware, software, services/support and media.”

The news is partially an indicator of renewed confidence in the economy, but it also demonstrates that data protection is a high priority. Many aspects of information security–fighting malware, blocking spam, etc.–have reached a level of equilibrium with the threats they protect against, and have become part of the mundane routine, enabling admins to focus more effort on protecting confidential and sensitive data from being leaked–whether intentionally or inadvertently.

Those 80 percent that plan to allocate significant budget to data protection tools should spend some time exploring what Zecurion has to offer with the Zserver Suite, Zlock, and Zgate.

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Zserver Provides the Protection Data Deserves

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Zserver Suite provides organizations with complete protection of their data residing on servers and backup media by transparently encrypting and safekeeping all business-critical and confidential customer information. In other words, it just works–ensuring that data is secure and protected from unauthorized access even on lost or stolen devices.

Check out 12 Reasons Why Zserver Suite is the Ultimate Data Protection to learn more.

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Stolen Laptop Puts Patient Data at Risk

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

A laptop belonging to an employee of St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis was stolen from the worker’s residence. That laptop contained medical history details and Social Security numbers of 1,200 hospital patients–and of course the data is not encrypted or protected in any way.

Rex McKinney, St. Vincent Hospital privacy officer stated, “We are committed to protecting the confidentiality and privacy of our patients and will continue to implement administrative, technical and physical safeguards against unauthorized disclosures of protected health information.”

That is all well and good, but in order to “continue” implementing safeguards you would have to have implemented some in the first place. The article also states that the hospital is taking “precautionary steps to avoid future incidents.”

The thing is that implementing controls in response to an incident after data has already been compromised is not “precautionary”–it’s reactionary. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance requirements already mandate that the data should have been protected to begin with. Putting basic protection in after the fact is hardly heroic or praiseworthy–it’s just public relations damage control.

When will organizations–particularly medical and educational institutions–learn that implementing solutions like Zecurion’s Zserver Storage is a simple, cost-effective solution that can prevent incidents like these and save the organization from facing the legal, financial, and reputation consequences of compromising sensitive data?

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RAID Provides Data Integrity and Availability, But Not Security

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

In the storage realm RAID architecture continues to be very popular and is widely used by different vendors because it allows for the combination of different hard drives into one fast, reliable and
spacious storage device that satisfies nearly all enterprise data storage needs. However, along with all the well known benefits of RAID architecture a common misconception continues to exist; many IT
professionals still believe that the data stored on RAID devices is secure.

This false belief stems from the basic concept of RAID – distributing the data among many hard drives which disrupts files formats and makes the stealing of one particular hard drive from the RAID system useless for an attacker. This white paper highlights the threats to data in a RAID architecture and outlines why additional data protection procedures should be employed to ensure complete protection and compliance with the ever-increasing regulatory mandates for securing sensitive data.

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Zserver Protects Data in the Cloud

Friday, June 18th, 2010

A ComputerWorld article title Cloud Security in the Real World: 4 Examples cites Zecurion’s Zserver as a cloud-based storage encryption solution. 

Examining the issue of data encryption in the cloud, the article states “Several providers of cloud-based backup storage install appliances at the customer site to accommodate encryption, but Flushing was not interested in that setup.”

It also explains “At Flushing Bank in New York, CIO Allen Brewer turned to the cloud for data backup after getting fed up with on-site tape backup. Using Zserver from Zecurion, Flushing is now sending files over the Internet to be stored for backup.”

 Read the white paper Protecting Data in the Cloud to learn more about encrypting and protecting data in the cloud with Zecurion’s Zserver.

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Tufts University Alumni Data Exposed by Malware

Monday, June 14th, 2010

What is it about networks and data at universities and medical establishments? It seems like almost every breach of sensitive or personal data is related to these two types of institutions. Are they targeted more often than other types of networks, or do they just have weaker security and poorer data protection mechanisms in place?

Following on the heels of the recent botnet compromise at Penn State University, Tufts University has discovered that “several computers were recently exposed to an unknown virus or malicious software program.” As a result, roughly 7000 alumnus may have had their student ID numbers exposed–and like Penn State University the breached data is legacy data from a time when the university used the student’s Social Security number as their student ID number.

Universities, including both Penn State University and Tufts University, have abandoned that practice, but apparently have not found the time to go back through archive data and old databases to purge legacy information from the servers. While that is still a good idea, and a project that these universities should be pursuing, having sufficient data protection controls in place, such as encrypting the stored data, would ensure that it would not be exposed even in the event of a malware compromise or breach of the server itself.

A small investment in proactive security measures goes a long way and saves the organization from the lost reputation, time, and money involved in responding to a data breach incident.

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