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| Written by Massimo Cotrozzi | |||||
| Saturday, 05 August 2006 | |||||
With the recent fusions/acquisitions (Symantec vs Veritas, EMC2 vs RSA) a new era seems to have started in the security arena, or viceversa a new era started in the storage arena, pick up the version you feel more comfortable with.
In fact it's good news anyway.
The facts say that a 2.8 billion dollars acquisition puts now EMC on an even higher layer than the previous acquisition from Symantec last year. The common goals for both acquisitions is aiming
towards deploying new models of data storage that could allow for a
safer and more reliable data management in data centers...
In fact since today the only security measure provided was "online backups" (a-la RAID) and "offline backup storage", while now it looks like we' re going to have integrated inside storage other sorts of systems, from intrusion detectors/preventors, to antivirus (on one side) to digital signatures, encryption and strong access controls (on the other side).
Actually, while it seems more "natural" to add strong access control and encryption to data storage, the step to add control over unknowned or not wanted activity seems a clever move as well....
But what is the driver behind these moves? probably the sector has reached the limit of security provisioning "horizontally" and tries to move "vertically", not only on relying on secure storage but on providing to all applications accessing to data a security layer completely integrated.
It is at least since RSA 1999 we hear about "This is the year of PKI", so maybe this is the real start of it. what's more, on both sides a link is missing, leading us think the supermarket is still open.....
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