SECURING FIBRE CHANNEL FABRICS - Brocade

Chapter 1: Introduction• The European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive (EU Directive95/46/EC)• The Monetary Authority of SingaporeSome legislation is regional such as the precedent-setting CaliforniaSenate Bill (SB) 1386 and similar laws currently in effect in 46 states 1at the time of writing. This legislation requires organizations to disclosesecurity breaches of unencrypted personal informationbelonging to their state residents. This means that a security breachmight be made public and have serious business consequences,including customer attrition and loss of brand equity.Regardless of the specific legislation, the more valuable the data is toan organization, the lower the tolerated risk level will be when it comesto protecting it. This trend will most likely continue, especially as datasecurity becomes an increasingly global issue. SAN security can nolonger be overlooked by security and storage professionals, sinceevery day the volume and value of mission-critical data in their storageenvironments increases. In fact, judging by a significant increase inSAN security-related questions since 2010, SAN security has taken ona more visible role with security professionals.1. National Conference of State Legislatures website (March 25 2012):http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/cip/priv/breachlaws.htm2 Securing Fibre Channel Fabrics