To avoid the high costs associated with data exposures such as these, organizations must put in place a comprehensive security strategy. While each point in the storage infrastructure provides unique threat models, data-at-rest presents one of the highest security vulnerabilities. The emergence of self-encrypting drives is timely in mitigating the security vulnerabilities of data-at-rest.

While the encryption capabilities of the drives are the primary level of security, management of the self encrypting drives is critical to its execution. In fact, the security capabilities offered with drive-level encryption are only as good as the management tool used to implement and manage them.

As a leader in storage technologies, LSI is pleased to offer SafeStore™ encryption services which combine local key management with self-encrypting drives. This represents a significant step forward in securing a drive’s data from the enterprise to the small-to-medium business. Spanning SANtricity-based storage systems (7900, 6998, and 399x) and MegaRAID adapters, SafeStore local key management maintains and controls the key linkage and communications with the self-encrypting drives, secures user-selected volume groups, and authorizes the drives to encrypt and decrypt data with pass phrase and security key management. SafeStore local key management uses simple and intuitive configuration menus to effectively protect data from any unauthorized access or modification resulting from theft, loss, or repurposing of drives.