Seagate Helps Strengthen Federal Cybersecurity With New Data Encryption Capabilities
February 13 2017 - 8:01AM
Business Wire
Integration with Fornetix Advanced Encryption
Key Management Technology Empowers Federal Agencies to
Cost-Effectively Defend Against Evolving Cybersecurity Threats
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) announced that its
portfolio hard drives and solid-state drives designed to meet
stringent federal security standards now integrate with advanced
encryption key management software and services from Fornetix, LLC.
The integration gives federal government agencies another line of
defense against external and internal cybersecurity threats by
providing a more secure and easier way to manage and ensure data
encryption.
“Secure data storage is a universal need, but organizations like
federal agencies face additional pressures when it comes to
security, encryption and ensuring data is accessible to only those
who should have access,” said Deb Oliver, president, Seagate
Government Solutions. “Seagate has a long history of providing
technologies that meet the most stringent security standards, and
our integration with Fornetix extends this commitment by deepening
the security we provide down to the key management level.”
Led by the Seagate Government Solutions business, the
integration involves Seagate drives that meet Federal Information
Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS PUB140-2) requirements,
a U.S. government computer security standard used for approving
cryptographic modules. The Seagate FIPS PUB140-2 drives now
integrate with Fornetix Key™ Orchestration products and services,
which help manage the digital keys found on drives that help secure
data. The resulting combination makes it easier to dynamically
manage and re-key drives as needed — an often cumbersome and
difficult process — without compromising data security.
Seagate offers FIPS PUB140-2-compliant drives, which are
included in this integration. These drives are also compatible with
storage appliances and systems, including Seagate’s ClusterStor®
Secure Data Appliance (SDA), the industry’s first secure scale-out
parallel file system solution. Developed specifically for the
federal market, ClusterStor SDA enables tens of thousands of users
with different security classifications to connect to a
single-server storage environment, allowing access to only those
who should have it. The inclusion of FIPS PUB140-2 drives with
Fornetix Key Orchestration products adds another layer of
encryption-based security to meet federal data management needs
without the additional overhead traditionally associated with added
encryption tools.
“Fornetix is teaming up with Seagate to help expand the level of
data encryption capabilities we’re able to offer the federal
government and other organizations,” said Jack Wright, chief
operating officer and acting chief executive officer, Fornetix,
LLC. “Our secure key management, coupled with Seagate’s experience
securely managing data from the drive to the systems level,
provides users with a set of technology tools that make data
encryption more affordable, secure and easier to manage.”
The integrated Seagate and Fornetix products are also part of
the Multilevel Security (MLS) Ecosystem, a joint effort in
collaboration with multiple organizations to address data security
requirements for the federal government. The products comply with
the MLS Ecosystem’s framework of integrated, automated technology
that enables secure workflow for government customers, eliminating
costly data stovepipes while accommodating various levels of
security clearance from a single storage platform.
Seagate and Fornetix products are currently available from
Seagate Government Solutions. Both companies will demonstrate their
product integrations at the RSA Conference 2017 in the Fornetix
booth #S2743 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., Feb.
13-17.
About Fornetix, LLC
Fornetix is an advanced encryption/key management software
company based in Northern Virginia. We are a Team of 70
cybersecurity and business experts that are mission driven to
reverse the tide of eroding cybersecurity. Our solution is
Key Orchestration™.
About Seagate Government Solutions
Seagate Government Solutions is a U.S.-based business entity of
Seagate Technology LLC focused on the federal government’s big
data, scale-out storage, and security needs. Seagate Government
Solutions will draw from Seagate’s purpose-engineered storage and
security storage technology – encompassing a robust supply chain,
from components and storage devices to file systems – to deliver
the levels of security, performance, efficiency, complexity
reduction and risk mitigation especially needed in this space.
About Seagate
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