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A good storage solution, backed up with the right policies, can help keep you out of the headlines and achieve compliance. By Mark Mayne Faced with ever more data to be kept, tougher regulations and high-profile security breaches, it's time to rethink storage. Symantec has snapped up private online storage firm Swapdrive for an estimated $123 million. This little USB storage device provides encrypted storage for data up to a gigabyte with all access controls embedded in the product. Security experts at McAfee and IBM admit customers are yet to fully grasp the importance of data management despite stronger regulation and a series of highly publicised breaches.
IT security has long been the focus of corporate attention, while storage security has been — perhaps unnoticeably — absent from the limelight. So it perhaps comes as a surprise to find that the data held in storage environments is frequently left vulnerable, simply because security in this area is so often overlooked. The University of Miami disclosed on Friday that one of its storage vendors lost a number of back-up tapes containing the personal information of more than two million patients. With the looming threats of publicly exposed personal data breaches, mishandled confidential partner information and lost intellectual property assets, an increasing number of enterprises are investigating options for securing data stored on both tape- and disk-based media. Few can imagine going back to a world without tools for mobility. The ability to access and process digital information with laptops and other handheld devices has forever changed our lives. SonicWALL announces latest storage capabilities adding offsite storage for existing CDP customers. VeriSign today announced strong growth for its VIP identity protection service, including the imminent launch of DocLocker, an online document storage system. More efficient networks have opened up your data to a host of new dangers. Scott Gordon outlines how best to protect it. Unitrends CEO Duncan McPherson looks at how encryption has become an increasingly important technology for businesses. Unitrends CEO Duncan McPherson looks at how encryption has become an increasingly important technology for businesses. The U.S. Department of Defense has banned USB drives and other removable media after a worm hit military networks. Enterprise security vendor McAfee has announced an extension to its general purpose VirusScan Enterprise range.. We spend a lot of time trying to secure mobile devices, but what about the removable storage cards they contain? GFi EndPointSecurity features the ability to control specific ports on client machines via Active Directory. Policy can be put in place to grant or deny users or groups of users access to USB ports, as well as other ports, such as firewire and other removable storage media. Storage area networks and network-attached storage are all very well, but how do you secure them properly? And does anyone care, wonders James Middleton The cloud will become dangerous, good sites will be used to hide bad data, and rich internet applications will turn on their users. These are some of the predictions from Websense Security Labs, which has compiled a security forecast for 2009.