The world of storage security standards continues to evolve. In fact, it can be hard to keep up with all that’s happening. Here’s a quick recap of SNIA’s involvement and impact on some notable storage security work – past, present and future.
The Storage Security ISO/IEC 27040 standard provides security techniques and detailed technical guidance on how organizations can define an appropriate level of risk mitigation by employing a well-proven and consistent approach to the planning, design, documentation, and implementation of data storage security. SNIA has been a key industry advocate of this standard by providing many of the concepts and best practices dating back to 2006. Recently, the SNIA Storage Security Technical Work Group (TWG) authored a series of white papers that explored a range of topics covered by the ISO/IEC 27040 standard.
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If you’re a storage equipment or management software vendor that uses SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) as the storage management interface for your solution, you’re not alone.
First introduced in 2004, SMI-S has been used in over 1,350 storage products by some of the largest vendors in the industry. It defines a secure and reliable interface that can be used to discover, monitor, and control the physical and logical devices in enterprise storage area networks. Unlike proprietary management interfaces, SMI-S is a standard interface that allows management applications to reliably support a wider range of storage equipment from multiple vendors.
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