Advancing Security In Storage Area Networks

As organizations continue to broaden their reach to business partners and customers around the globe, they expose their IT systems to a wider range of potential security threats. Today, data theft, eavesdropping, fraud, and hacker attempts increasingly threaten secure electronic information exchange within the enterprise and across public networks, such as the Internet.

Because an organization's IT systems are only as secure as the weakest link in the network, Brocade® has developed a comprehensive security framework that helps ensure safe, reliable data processing throughout a Storage Area Network (SAN). An integrated solution that addresses a wide variety of potential security threats, Brocade Secure Fabric OS® provides a new level of SAN security—enabling a robust, mission-critical SAN infrastructure. Today, organizations can implement Secure Fabric OS in all their SAN environments to safeguard data and alleviate a wide variety of security risks.

The recent explosion in e-business activity and Internet commerce has provided organizations with unlimited opportunities for developing new information delivery channels. At a minimum, online expansion opens up a whole new world of possibilities — such as increased efficiency, reduced costs, improved enterprise-wide communications, shorter time-to-market, and wider market reach. Although the benefits of e-business can be far-reaching, today's organizations must be careful to balance their need to expand with their ability to protect enterprise data.

As the popularity of distributed client/server networks steadily rose throughout the 1990s, organizations found it much more difficult to effectively secure their critical business networks, applications, and data.The emergence and growth of public networks such as the Internet has only increased the potential frequency and severity of computer security incidents. As a result, information security is perhaps the greatest concern for organizations participating in the e-business arena.