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Intel® RAID Controllers with

Self-Encrypting Drive Support

On Target Security

Whether it is sensitive customer informa-

tion, intellectual property or proprietary

data that helps a company reach its

strategic objectives, a company’s data

may be its most valuable asset. If this data

is misplaced or stolen, organizations run

the risk of lost revenue, legal implications,

and a tarnished reputation. The unfortu-

nate truth is that an organization’s data is

becoming increasingly vulnerable as lost,

accidentally exposed or breached data is

becoming more and more commonplace in

today’s environment. With data security

risks on the rise, an inux of government

mandates and regulations for secur-

ing data have been implemented and is

becoming part of the corporate landscape

for many. Eliminating exposure of private

data is now simply viewed as a sound busi-

ness practice.

To avoid the high costs associated with

data exposures such as these, organiza-

tions 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.

Data, in fact, spends most of its life at

rest on drives within the data center. As

these drives will eventually leave the data

center either for repair, retirement, reloca-

tion or maintenance, it is at this time that

drives — and the data contained on these

drives — are most vulnerable to being lost

or stolen.

The emergence of self-encrypting drives

is timely in mitigating the security vulner-

abilities of data-at-rest. Self-encrypting

drives that adhere to the TCG (Trusted

Computing Group) Enterprise Security

Subsystem Class specication are National

Security Agency qualied and provide

unparalleled security with government-

grade encryption. With self-encrypting

drives, if a drive is removed from its

storage system or the server it is housed

in, the data on that drive is encrypted and

useless to anyone who attempts to access

it without the appropriate security autho-

rization. Many safe harbor laws protect or-

ganizations that store data in compliance

with security encryption requirements. In

fact, in many cases, an organization will

not have to notify a customer of lost data

if that data was stored on secured self-

encrypting drives.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF DATA

BREACHES:

Loss of customers and revenue

Unplanned expenses

Legal implications, penalties and

fines

Negative press and tarnished

reputation

Lost goodwill and undermining of

other corporate relationships

Simple, affordable protection against data theft

PRODUCT BRIEF

Intel® RAID® Controllers

Summary of content (4 pages)

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PRODUCT BRIEF Intel® RAID® Controllers Intel® RAID Controllers with Self-Encrypting Drive Support Simple, affordable protection against data theft NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF DATA BREACHES: n Loss of customers and revenue n Unplanned expenses n n n Legal implications, penalties and fines Negative press and tarnished reputation Lost goodwill and undermining of other corporate relationships On Target Security Whether it is sensitive customer information, intellectual property or proprietary data that helps
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Simple, secure and cost-effective self-encrypting drive management 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 drivelevel encryption are only as good as the management tool used to implement and manage them.
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High Performance Intel RAID Controller performance-optimized architectures with self-encrypting drives allow for exceptional data security with virtually no performance impact. While other encryption methods may take place at the software or controller level, which can negatively impact processing resources, encryption resides on the drive itself. When SafeStore local key management authorizes encryption, no CPU cycles from the host are necessary and the transfer of I/Os can occur without interruption.
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