Balancing Security, Collaboration and High Availability

Enterprise data is growing at greater than 70% per year. The need to collaborate requires an Enterprise to share it’s rapidly growing data. And sharing is restricted by legacy, stove pipe architectures that are expensive to maintain, inefficient, and do not scale.

Risk mitigation has been the standard industry response to any threat, whether physical or virtual, and is a significant impediment to information availability. Today, the mitigation effort is so overwhelming and inefficient that it is nearly impossible to simultaneously maximize security, collaboration, and high availability. In fact, data centers are full of stove pipe architectures that are more closely aligned with the fortresses of old than the agile organizations needed to survive in today’s market place. Current risk mitigation strategies are wasteful. Security only improves marginally with each fix, while exponentially adding time, cost, footprint, power, cooling, people and processes to the enterprise.

Risk elimination is the new way forward. Through proper design, governance, requirements and policy setting, companies can disaster proof their environments, become greener and utilize public domain resources such as the CLOUD. The key is eliminating risk, not just managing it. To address this at the root cause, Information Assurance (IA) must be implemented within the data itself, or Data-Centric.

Game-Changing Technology

IT managers need to both secure enterprise data and simultaneously provide authenticated user access to it. Additionally, they need to provide that secure access without service disruption and without regard to user location.

Security First Corp. has solved this fundamental problem for IT managers. SPxBitFiler is a game-changing, break-through technology that makes data provably secure, highly available and enables nested Communities of Interest (COI) for sharing. The need for multiple perimeter hardware and software technologies required today is eliminated. SPxBitFiler solves the dilemma by weaving security into the data.

Security Woven into the Data

SPxBitFiler is a software application that runs on both Windows and Linux platforms. Operating at the kernel level to achieve both maximum performance and ease of use, SPxBitFiler transforms data management by weaving security directly into the data at the bit level by encrypting and splitting the data. This allows us to create a solution with highly available, protected data that is only accessible with proper credentials.

Cryptographic Separation Enables Safe Sharing

SPxBitFiler leverages Security First Corp.’s game-changing SecureParser Extended™ (SPx) core technology. SPx utilizes a unique, patented algorithm to deliver defense-level security (FIPS 140-2 certified, Suite B compliant) products. Cryptographic separation involves encrypting, splitting and integrity checking of the data. The data shares can then be sent to multiple locations (locally and/or geographically dispersed). And fault tolerance is built-in as only a subset of the split shares are needed to restore the data.

SPxBitFiler enables Enterprise Communities of Interest (COI) to be established that can leverage a common enterprise infrastructure (hardware and software). Because security is already woven into the data, this common infrastructure can be used without compromising data security and access control. Multiple COIs can co-exist within the same infrastructure and within a single secure storage system. Because the data is split, no forensically discernible data is stored on any device or media. Stored data is invisible to users who do not have the correct credentials for access.

Easy Integration

SPxBitFiler integrates with existing enterprise access control systems, allowing simplified deployment without modification of current, established access solutions. It is hardware and software independent, working with existing enterprise network, storage and security solutions. It also integrates with any collaboration, CRM and ERP applications. With built-in security, SPxBitFiler enables the use of emerging, cost effective technologies and services such as Cloud-based: storage, compute and application infrastructures.

Always-On Data

SPxBitFiler delivers a break-through capability for secure enterprise storage we call ‘Data-Tone’. Data-Tone means the same thing to enterprise information as dial tone means to the phone company—reliable, stable, and always available. SPxBitFiler eliminates the need to choose between data security and data availability. Separate infrastructures for data access, disaster recovery and business continuity are eliminated. SPxBitFiler is the single, trusted IA technology that allows data security and high availability to co-exist in the enterprise.

Summary:

SPxBitFiler improves the agility of any IT organization while reducing costs (space, power, cooling, support, people). It eliminates the need to choose between data security or availability. SPxBitFiler is a green solution that efficiently optimizes existing IT infrastructures while allowing for modernization without proprietary point solutions. This single application eliminates numerous bolt-on perimeter security devices because data security is built-in. SPxBitFiler delivers a disaster proof, risk elimination capability for the enterprise.

Security First Corp. will work with any VAR to deliver storage solutions containing this game-changing secure storage product. SPxBitFiler delivers a simplified, cost-effective, information storage infrastructure with dramatically increased availability of secured data for mission critical applications.
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