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Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 4, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

Replication data communication encryption in transit using TLS

Encryption of data at flight:

Currently our spectrum Virtualize software is able to do a encryption of data at rest. This capability means that data is encrypted as it is written to disks by the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Controllers, and not by disk themselves. However Replication and host to storage communication is not encrypted.

With increased security requirements for organizations data, an encryption of data at flight ( over the wire) is also critical in order to keep the data always secure and encrypted.

In scenarios such as replication, this has become a very critical functionality for users as they dont want to compromise with data not only when it is stored in storage controllers,but also when it is transmitted from one site to another or when doing a host to storage communication.

The encryption feature will be between the two replicated datasets( or three , depending upon architecture and business requirement) by using encryption communication standard such as
TLS 1.2 on AES-256 on Global Mirror, Hyperswap, Strech cluster, 3-Site etc. by using PSK) between two clusters.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Oct 2, 2022

    Encrypted IP replication using IPsec was introduced in 3Q22 (8.5.2).

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