RSA: EMC outlines RSA-led security strategy
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EMC's goal is to be able to encrypt storage array data "on the fly" and without slowing down the input or adding cost.
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Grid architecture aims to protect corporate networks from interior security threats.
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(InfoWorld) - The cool reception from Wall Street this summer after EMCâs announcement that it would buy RSA Security had EMC executives feeling a bit flummoxed -- like the guy who elopes, only to find out that his friends didnât like his girlfriend to begin with. EMCâs stock fell 3 percent following the announcement, and in talks with analysts and reporters about the $2.1 billion deal, CEO Joe Tucci faced tough questions about the price his company paid for RSA and EMCâs overall strategy . Four months later, EMCâs stock has recovered nicely, and the company is moving forward on efforts to use RSAâs assets to create a common security platform that stretches across all its products. InfoWorld Senior Editor Paul F. Roberts checked in recently with Dennis Hoffman, vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Solutions Business Unit at RSA, the Security Division of EMC, to see how things are going. InfoWorld: You headed up EMCâs security group prior to the RSA purchase. How is your strategy different now?                                                     Dennis Hoffman: The interesting thing is that thereâs no difference in the strategy before and after. We made some broad conclusions and built a plan around that. We saw information security, as a market, colliding with information management. The only thing that took a lot of time was sorting out what were the salient parts of the information-security industry for that strategy. When we did that, we carved out what turned out to be the vast majority of the security revenues. We said, âWeâre not part-interested in anti-virus, firewall, IPS, and IDS systems. Thatâs yesterdayâs security battle.â Everyone paying attention to whatâs in the news: people losing information and data breaches that are exposed in the public eye. IW: Youâve said RSAâs technology will become a common authentication platform for EMCâs products. How far off is that vision? DH: Those services -- authentication services, authorization services, auditing services -- are all being delivered into the base EMC platforms throughout 2007 as part of delivery of the common security platform. It will all start during the middle of next year, and it will just depend on when various releases get on the train. IW: How do you get true security without better platform security from companies like Microsoft? How do developments in Redmond affect what EMC and RSA do? DH: Theyâre certainly interrelated. In fact, I just got off the phone with the general manager of the Windows Security Business just before our call. Weâre talking about ways the two companies can partner more deeply and better than we have historically. As an industry weâve been obsessed with the idea of âperfect securityâ for a long time. It doesnât exist. Perfect security is called business discontinuance. You turn off the company and then everything is secure. Weâve learned with our adaptive authentication products that as banks seek to protect the identities of their own consumers, theyâve found that the mathematically correct, rigidly correct security isnât the right kind for them. I donât think that any of us in the rest of the stack -- Microsoft at the operating system level ... Cisco at the network, and EMC at the storage and information layer -- can stand and throw rocks at each other or wait for the other guy to get perfect before we can do anything. We have an obligation in our part of the world, lower in stack and in our hardware, to secure them and enable a more infocentric form of security in what we do. Hopefully weâll closely partner with the Microsofts and Ciscos to do that. IW: How might those partnerships look? DH: Iâm not going to foreshadow the things weâre in talks about, because theyâre not finished. At the highest level, we all need to be able to do a better job speaking security policy and exchanging policies with one another. We have close partnerships today with ... Cisco and Microsoft. Ideally, if someone wants to create a policy in the network to protect data in flight, when that data rests on a storage device, we should be able to support that policy. When something is established by a user at the desktop and traverses Cisco networking equipment to be stored and managed as information within the EMC infrastructure, thatâs where the collaborations ultimately have to happen.
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On the day data storage giant EMC Corp. completed its purchase of data security company RSA Security Inc. of Bedford, it also purchased another local security company, Network Intelligence Corp. of Westwood, for $175 million.
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At the RSA Conference in Europe, the two companies, which are frequent adversaries, join a security organization and pledge cooperation.
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Looking to extend its RSA division's authentication product line, EMC has purchased identity verification services vendor Verid.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Attendees at the RSA conference had mixed views about the value and effectiveness of the PCI data security standard, which is being pushed by the major credit card companies.
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The Trusted Computing Group has announced a draft specification to protect sensitive data on storage devices.
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Top Layer Networks--  Who:   Mike Paquette, Chief Strategy Officer- Top Layer Networks  What:  Mike Paquette will be among a panel of the leading security experts at the 2007 RSA Conference discussing Intrusion Prevention Systems and the next generation of network security.
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Company backs 128-bit encryption, support for home LANs
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Euro defense company develops "hacker-proof" encryption.
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Presenters at the Crypto 2004 conference identify faster ways to forge digital signatures with common security algorithms.
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IBM has infiltrated deeper into EMC&#39;s storage line with a new version of its SAN (storage area network) Volume Controller software.
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Company has made headway on protecting PCs, but more Net use means more challenges, Gates and Mundie tell RSA crowd.
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EMC has added a tamper-proof view of management and support actions, safeguards against unauthorized service actions and certified data erasure to its high-end Symmetrix storage arrays.
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Port25 has released a new version of its PowerMTA, geared to address E-mail-authentication specs and accreditation services. By Thomas Claburn.
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Disk freeze EMC refuses to let server makers get all the low-power data center attention. The storage vendor this week rolled out a new set of services meant to help customers gauge and then lower their energy consumption.â¦