Dependable data security without the cost or complexity

Data security is an increasingly pressing issue for organizations. Not a week goes by without a high-profile breach or loss of data. The advent of tougher data privacy regulations like GDPR has pushed data encryption and security to the forefront of the IT architect’s mind.

SvSAN includes data encryption that is FIPS 140-2 compliant and eliminates the need for complex, expensive specialist hardware, and OS or hypervisor-level solutions.

White Paper: Data at Rest Encryption – Best Practices for Edge Environments

This white paper details best practices for encryption, particularly for edge sites. It explains SvSAN’s own data encryption feature and concludes with a list of failure scenarios that SvSAN can tolerate without compromising data security. Complete the form to read the full white paper.

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How does SvSAN’s data encryption feature work?

Available as an additional feature on top of the base SvSAN license, SvSAN’s data encryption feature is the most cost-effective encryption solution for SMBs and edge computing environments. The 100% software approach eliminates the need for operating system or hypervisor-level encryption and does not require any special hardware, such as self-encrypting drives (SEDs). It is a simple and inexpensive way to protect sensitive data at the edge and for SMBs, where servers aren’t typically located in secure datacenters.

Any data handled by SvSAN’s data encryption feature is encrypted before it is written to disk, using a FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption algorithm (XTS-AES-256). The solution meets HIPAA, PCI DSS & SOX requirements and uses CPU AES-NI encryption instructions that provide hardware acceleration.

Flexibility is underlined through SvSAN’s compatibility with any KMIP-compliant key management server (KMS), such as StorMagic SvKMS, and the user has the option to encrypt all data, or just selected volumes as well as secure erasure and rekey. Additionally, all data is encrypted on the drives and in-flight between storage caching tiers and high availability clustered servers.

Another big benefit is that data destruction (disk scrubbing or degaussing) is not required on failed drives before discarding.

Try SvSAN and its data encryption with a 15-day free trial