June 6, 2006 - Decru, a NetApp
(NASDAQ: NTAP) company, today announced the Decru OpenKey partner
programme, which provides a business and technology framework for
development of standards-based, multiparty encryption solutions.
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) and Quantum Corp. (NYSE:DSS) have
joined as charter members of the Decru OpenKey partner
programme.
Responding to customer demand for greater security, many storage
and data management vendors have announced plans to incorporate
encryption and security features into their products. For large
enterprises, however, the prospect of operating proprietary key
management systems for every system and vendor presents substantial
challenges.
To address these challenges, Decru has also announced new
application programming interfaces (APIs) for the Decru Lifetime
Key Management 3.0 appliance to enable centralised, standards-based
key management services for multiple third-party encryption systems
across the enterprise. For more details on DataFort, see
www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-security-systems/datafort.
The Decru OpenKey programme provides partners with the
standards-based APIs, developer kits, reference implementations,
and technical support to facilitate development of interoperable
encryption and key management solutions. The OpenKey program builds
upon Decru's unique role as an independent security vendor to
facilitate development and standards cooperation among competing
data management vendors.
Emerging storage security standards provide a starting point for
development of interoperable encryption systems, but standards
provide only a starting point. Successful integration and support
of these systems requires a great deal of sustained vendor
cooperation. Decru is the first storage security vendor to combine
open key management with a full line of enterprise-class storage
security solutions, enabling unified security across enterprise
NAS, DAS, IP SAN, FC SAN, disk-based data protection, and tape
environments.
Kevin Brown, vice president of Marketing at Decru said: "We are
excited to announce Symantec and Quantum as charter members of the
Decru OpenKey partner program. Decru, Symantec and Quantum have
already taken a leading role in defining storage security
standards, and the OpenKey partner programme provides a framework
to ensure maximum interoperability among vendors."
Decru OpenKey Partner Program
The ultimate goal of the Decru OpenKey program is to help
enterprise customers simplify the daunting security requirements
for heterogeneous data management environments. By enabling
centralised, secure key management for data encryption at multiple
layers - including content management, applications, fabric, and
storage devices - Decru has expanded the value it can offer
enterprise customers.
Rick Huebsch, vice president of the Veritas NetBackup product line
at Symantec said: "The convergence of storage and security is
becoming a growing reality for leading IT organisations around the
world. The Decru Lifetime Key Management 3.0 appliance is an
attractive hardware-based complement to Symantec's native security
features and we will jointly work toward developing and adopting
open standards for APIs with NetBackup as a market leader in
security-enabled data protection."
To further complement this vendor initiative and ensure
interoperability at mutual customer sites, the NetBackup support of
the Decru DataFort appliance is in process and planned by Q3
CY2006.
Rob Pickell, vice president of worldwide marketing for Quantum
said: "Quantum has taken a leadership position in delivering a
comprehensive security framework for backup, recovery and archive
based on controls governing physical access, administrative access
and data access - which includes our recently announced reseller
relationship with Decru. Our companies are working closely together
to address customers' key management challenges by exploring
collaborative solutions that achieve tighter integration of
security and storage."
Commitment to Standards
Decru strives to incorporate emerging and accepted standards in its
implementations, to ensure best practices and to maximise
interoperability. Decru has been heavily involved in industry
standards development efforts in the area of storage security.
Decru's participation on standards committees includes:
- IEEE P1619: Decru co-authored the emerging P1619 storage
security standard, and implemented many of the critical
data-at-rest security features three years ago.
- ANSI T10: Decru has contributed proposals for enhancing key
security and authentication.
- TCG: Decru is as a Contributor Member of the Trusted Computing
Group, and participates in multiple committees.
About Decru
Decru, a NetApp company, is the leader in storage security. Decru
solutions enable enterprise-wide secure data management, and
address critical business requirements including privacy,
regulatory compliance, intellectual property protection, and
internal controls. Decru provides security solutions to many of the
world's largest enterprise and government customers.
For Further Information, please contact:
Elisabeth van de Mandele/Sally Robards
Kaizo
netapp@kaizo.net
020 7580 8852