Decru, a NetApp company, today announced that Integrated Systems Corporation (ISCorp), a leading provider of

On-Demand applications and data processing solutions for the financial, health care, and education markets, has selected Decru storage security solutions to expand their service offerings and protect sensitive and regulated client data from unauthorized access. Clustered Decru DataFort® FC-Series appliances have been deployed to encrypt data stored in both SAN and tape backup infrastructures.

Many of the world's largest organizations trust ISCorp to host, manage, and restore their data. Tape encryption has rapidly emerged as a baseline requirement for many customers who must comply with various privacy and disclosure regulations. However, these mandates are expanding, and encryption for data at rest on disk in storage networks is also becoming a priority.

"While ISCorp manages data for 7 of the top 10 global financial services companies, they're not the only ones who care about data protection-security is a top priority for virtually all of our customers," said Scott Rodenhuis, executive vice president and chief technology officer for ISCorp. "Decru helped us meet immediate customer requirements for tape encryption and also address the growing need for disk encryption, with a single, unified platform at a compelling price point."

Before selecting Decru, ISCorp evaluated a number of different encryption approaches, but found that each had limitations. For example, the software encryption built into backup applications had performance and disaster recovery limitations, while the built-in encryption in tape libraries could not scale to support disk encryption needs. ISCorp also considered doing encryption at the database level, but found the cost prohibitive. ISCorp chose Decru DataFort appliances because of their performance, strong key management, ease of use, and scalability to address both disk and tape encryption.

"Application service providers are at the center of the data privacy tornado. They must address diverse requirements from customers in many different industries," said Suresh Vasudevan, senior vice president and general manager of Decru. "We're pleased that Decru could help ISCorp round out its solution portfolio by providing strong security for data at rest."

Decru provides the industry's only unified platform for securing data at rest across the enterprise. DataFort appliances protect the application and storage infrastructure with a layer of wire-speed encryption, authentication, access controls, and enterprise-wide key management. Customers can deploy DataFort appliances transparently in NAS, DAS, FC SAN, IP SAN, and tape backup environments, with no changes to servers, desktops, applications, or user workflow - Network Applications.