Brocade, Thales Offer Integrated Soln For Storage Encryption

Brocade and Thales have announced the integration of Thales Encryption Manager for Storage (TEMS) with the Brocade encryption SAN switching solutions. The combination of TEMS, a standards-based encryption key management appliance for storage, and the Brocade Encryption Switch will protect enterprise data and help organisations meet growing compliance demands. The solution simplifies the storage encryption process by eliminating the need for storage professionals to deploy multiple storage encryption systems and helps ensure safe data access.

The Brocade Encryption Switch and Brocade FS8-18 Encryption Blade are part of a family of fabric-based encryption platforms that helps organisations meet their security and corporate governance objectives by encrypting critical corporate data with centralised fabric management. These solutions offer an innovative approach to fabric-wide encryption for data-at-rest within the data centre. The Brocade Encryption Switch provides encryption for both disk and tape storage systems.

The Brocade Encryption Switch is tightly integrated with TEMS, a ready-to-use appliance that consolidates and automates the management of encryption keys for storage systems in a transparent manner—delivering unified, fine-grained, and auditable encryption key security controls. This solution enables organisations to adopt storage encryption with the confidence that their encryption keys are under control and secured in an effective management system.

Brocade and Thales are committed to the development and adoption of open standards. TEMS is the first key manager to support the draft IEEE P1619.3 key management specification. Subsequent releases will also support the recently announced OASIS KMIP key management standard, originally co-authored by Thales.