ASTI Advances Safeguarding of Critical Enterprise Assets with New Encryption Module

Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) August 20, 2014

Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc. (ASTI), the leader in professional data archiving solutions, today announced their FIPS 140-2 compliant Encryption and Key Management feature, designed to safeguard valuable corporate data assets. With the security advantage of encryption, business executives across all industries can be confident and assured that their critical data assets are secure, protected, and shielded from unauthorized access.

"Companies and governments across the world are increasingly adopting data encryption to ensure the security of valuable data assets," explained Chris Carr, ASTI CEO. "ASTI's Encryption solution ensures that all archived data is protected from unauthorized access and meets government regulatory mandates. This provides protection from data breaches and prevents legal non-compliance, penalties and issues associated with negative publicity. Its powerful enterprise class features seamlessly integrate with ASTI's archiving solution and complements offsite and Cloud-Integrated Storage providing a very cost effective solution that instills confidence in data security."

ASTI asserts that their data archiving solutions have always offered the highest level of data protection by securing data unaltered for periods greater than 50 years. However, the enhanced security level provided by encryption enables customers to comply with industry regulations making it a must have feature. Our customers within the healthcare and financial industries and court systems are requesting the new feature.

"Encryption assures compliance with stringent industry regulations such as the HIPAA HITECH act and Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards, and can be used to protect court records as well," indicated Tim Summers, VP at ASTI. "ASTI's AES-256 bit encryption meets compliance standards for archived data retained past 2031 and offers defense against corporate espionage and malicious attacks, while preventing unauthorized access due to theft or loss of physical media."

The company's encryption feature adds an additional level of security to the powerful Archive Management Software (AMS), an integral component of its data archiving solutions. Implementation of the feature takes only minutes with archiving policies that enable protection of data stored locally, remotely or in the cloud. Tightly integrated user authentication and access controls (with Windows Active Directory and Unix/Linux LDAP), eliminate additional system administration burden and ensure that only authorized personnel acquire access to decrypted data.

With key management being a critical component of any encryption solution, ASTI's implementation ensures security and availability of keys by providing compliant protection techniques. This includes encrypting all file level encryption keys and securely vaulting them before use in on-premises or off-site cloud key vaults, ensuring keys are always available for disaster recovery and maintaining user control.

Interested parties who would like to learn more about ASTI's cloud-integrated professional data archiving solutions featuring encryption should visit the company's website: http://www.alliancestoragetechnologies.com.

About Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc.
Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc. (ASTI) is the primary source for professional data archiving and Cloud-Integrated Storage (CiS) solutions worldwide that meet and exceed challenging regulatory demands for secure archival data. Professional solutions provide value to any industry including: Healthcare, Finance, Government, Insurance, Legal, and more. These regulatory-compliant systems preserve unaltered data for extended periods (greater than 50 years) at an exceptionally low total cost of ownership.

Integrated and scalable professional data archiving solutions include: Cloud Integrated Storage (CiS), Network Attached Storage (NAS), related management software, and direct attached libraries all with true Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) as the core technology. Best-in-class global support services are available to sustain customer installations. Additionally, a complete line of certified Plasmon® parts are available. ASTI is committed to providing every customer with exemplary customer service and support from first contact through the life of the relationship. Thousands of businesses worldwide trust ASTI quality to secure their valuable investments in corporate data.

For further information, please visit http://www.alliancestoragetechnologies.com , or call 719-593-7900.

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