Cybersecurity and Acceible Storage Trends

EIGHTY FOUR, PA.-We now live in a world where organizations are more aware of cyberthreats than ever before. Cybercrime has now surpassed the profitability of illegal drug trafficking. Many organizations that interchange information are looking at myriad defensive measures to help keep business, industry and personal data secure. This elevated focus now includes storage systems as well as networks and other computer resources.

There is no such thing as perfect security, said cybersecurity firm FireEye in its annual Mandiant Threat Report issued earlier this year. Threat actors have evolved to encompass a larger scope of targets and are using a broader skillset to achieve their goals. Determined threat actors are always finding a way through a gap in security; thus bringing the media and entertainment industry into sharper focus.

VULNERABILITY TO ATTACKS

As storage systems have become more entangled in network-based communications, they have become equally vulnerable to similar kinds of threats and attacks. System designers and network administrators who focus on managing storage must now consider advanced approaches to security aimed at protecting their most valued resource- their digital files as media assets.

Open standards are helping to drive storage vendors' participation and interaction in finding effective methods for asset protection. Processes and procedures regularly being developed by a broad range of formal standards development organizations include industry forums and associations such as the Storage Network Industry Association and the Distributed Management Task Force. Teams working across all disciplines of storage and networking continue to provide a strong leadership role in establishing security criteria.

Standards organizations promote IT security objectives through parent committees (e.g., ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27) where security topics are addressed by active working groups that interact with industry to find acceptable and deployable preventative measures for security. Some of the groups address cryptography and security mechanisms (as SC27 WG2); security controls and services (as SC27 WG4); and the management of information and security systems for IT security evaluation and assurance.

Table 1: Cybersecurity work efforts of the INCITS (T10) and CS1 groups who provide direction and standards for industry

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