Nexsan eyes growing CAS market with storage encryption device
Nexsan eyes growing CAS market with storage encryption device
Aug 23, 2005: Nexsan Technologies is looking to grab a greater share of the midrange storage market with the introduction of what it claims is the first integrated secure storage appliance.
The Assureon product is being pitched at markets concerned with data privacy, data theft and compliance, such as corporations with electronic documents, cheque and medical imaging, email and all other forms of fixed content, including digital broadcast content and backup/archived critical data.
It offers data security through advanced encryption, authentication and data protection technologies, combined with fully featured lifecycle management, RAID hardware and content addressed storage technology, along with support for tape and optical – something which Nexsan claims has never before achieved in a single, fully integrated networked storage system.
Nexsan stated that it had responded to end users' demands for a single product that features encryption with content addressed storage, ILM and patent-pending security features in a disk-based system designed to be a “hardened” archive.
“Nexsan Assureon further fulfils our mandate to change the way IT managers store and protect information,” said Philip Black, CEO of Nexsan. “We believe that eventually all information will be securely stored. We don’t leave our homes, cars or valuables unlocked – why would we leave our valuable data unlocked? We all need to secure our information on all types of media; disk, tape and optical – all that’s been missing is the right technology.”
Assureon provides 256-bit AES encryption; authentication, tamper-proof time stamping, serialisation and self auditing; data protection systems that ensure information is not tampered with, corrupted, changed or erased until the end of its retention period; and crypto shredding of individual encryption keys to assure that the destroyed information cannot be read, including that which resides on offline media such as tape and optical.
Its automated encryption key management system provides support for multiple offsite repositories of keys, which are themselves encrypted, as well as active deposits of file manifest information with a neutral third party.
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