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Vormetric Delivers Near Zero Overhead for Enterprise Encryption
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Vormetric, Inc., the leader in
enterprise systems encryption
and key
management, today announced Vormetric Encryption V5 which
significantly reduces the cost and application impact of encryption.
Vormetric Encryption V5 uses software enhancements and hardware
encryption technologies such as Intel (News - Alert)®'s AES-NI and SPARC Niagara Crypto
accelerators when available to drive performance overhead to the lowest
levels possible. Vormetric meets the stringent performance requirements
demanded by enterprise applications for structured or unstructured data,
while providing essential data protection.
According to Forrester Research, "Ubiquitous encryption is the only hope
we have of maintaining some kind of parity with attackers in the new
threat landscape. Not only does encryption devalue the data from the
attacker's perspective, it generally places that data outside the scope
of compliance regimes like PCI (News - Alert) or US state privacy laws…. Compliance
mandates and privacy laws have given companies incentives to deploy more
and more encryption. As sensitive data very often resides in enterprise
databases, it is no surprise that encryption
of storage and databases is becoming more common.1"
Breaking the Performance and Scalability Barrier
Ubiquitous enterprise encryption solutions need to transparently support
any database and application environment with best in class performance.
Vormetric Encryption V5 can secureany database or application
environment while imposing near zero percent overhead for typical
transaction workloads with hardware-assisted instructions (Intel®
AES-NI) on x86 servers. This substantial performance boost enables
enterprises to significantly lower the cost of encryption and free up
CPU cycles for applications and data processing. In addition, Vormetric
Encryption V5 includes scalability enhancements that make it possible to
secure sizeable numbers of file systems and data volumes that are
expected in large enterprise environments.
A single Vormetric Data
Security Manager (DSM (News - Alert)) appliance cluster can provide centralized
policy and key management for the biggest enterprise servers with large
numbers of data sets, and tens of thousands of multi-core server farms.
"Enterprises are being required to protect an increasing amount of data,
be it for regulatory compliance requirements or to prevent intellectual
property breaches. Until now, using encryption to secure large datasets
has been hindered by performance overhead and scalability constraints,"
said Ashvin Kamaraju, vice president of product development at Vormetric.
"Vormetric Encryption V5 punches through the previous performance
ceiling and scales to support the most powerful enterprise servers," he
added.
Improved Manageability with Directory Services
The Data Security Manager simplifies the task of creating system, domain
and security administrator accounts through selection of credentialed
users from directory servers such as Active Directory or other directory
services using the LDAP/LDAPS protocols. In addition, Vormetric software
agents integrate with directory services for enforcing encryption access
control policies to users, groups, and hosts.
Two-Factor Authentication
To ensure the highest level of security for administrative access, the
Vormetric Encryption Data Security Manager provides two-factor
authentication with support for RSA (News - Alert) SecureID. This capability improves
security by preventing attackers and malicious insiders from accessing
Vormetric Data Security Manager appliances that control data security
policies.
"Vormetric's unified approach to policy management allows enterprises to
do more with less: protect more data, reduce IT administration costs,
tighten security and centralize auditing for regulatory compliance
reporting," concluded Ashvin Kamaraju.
Availability
Vormetric Encryption V5 for Linux/Solaris/AIX/Windows operating systems
is available in May 2012. Vormetric customers with existing support
contracts can upgrade their Vormetric Encryption V4 deployments to
benefit from these new capabilities.
About Vormetric
Vormetric (@Vormetric) is the leader in enterprise system encryption.
The Vormetric Data Security product line provides a single, manageable
and scalable solution to manage any key and encrypt any file, any
database, any application, anywhere it resides- without sacrificing
application performance and avoiding key management complexity. Some of
the largest and most security conscious organizations and government
agencies in the world, including 15 of the Fortune 25, have standardized
on Vormetric to provide strong, easily manageable data security.
Vormetric technology has previously been selected by IBM as the database
encryption solution for DB2 and Informix on Linux™, Unix® and Windows;
and by Symantec (News - Alert) to provide the Symantec Veritas NetBackup™ Media Server
Encryption Option. For more information, visit www.vormetric.com.
Vormetric is a trademark of Vormetric, Inc. All other names mentioned
are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their
respective owners.
1 Forrester Research, Inc. "Killing Data", 30 January 2012,
by John Kindervag.
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