Dispersive Technologies Unveils Cybersecurity Software-Defined Storage to Protect Data-At-Rest

Dispersive Technologies, Inc. announces SDS, a software-defined storage platform that improves the security of data-at-rest.

The announcement was made at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA.

SDS works with Virtualized Networks, company’s software-defined virtualized routing platform that delivers the speed, security and reliability needed for mission critical communications over standards-based IP networks. Together, they power company’ solutions to protect data-at-rest and data-in-motion.

SDS secures data-at-rest by:

Dividing data into blocks as small as one KB
Sending each block to different storage devices selected from a geographically disparate and
virtualized pool of available devices
Shuffling the locations of these blocks dynamically based on:
Reassembling the data at the client when queried or recalled.

“We’ve seen time and time again that merely encrypting stored data inadequately protects it against hacking,” said Robert W. Twitchell, Jr., president and CEO, Dispersive. “Unlike other approaches to data security, we’re actually designing solutions to protect against today’s cyber threats, not yesterday’s – and we’re doing it completely in software. This means you can store these disparate blocks using any combination of commodity storage devices, including flash drives, flash memory, HDD drives and networked file servers,across any combination of geographic locations. Dispersive SDS introduces a whole new complexity axis to the hacker’s collection problem, one that means even if a hacker breaches your first level of defense, the compromised data is only a piece of the puzzle. Without the other pieces, the data is useless.“

By dividing data into smaller blocks, spreading these blocks across a virtualized pool of available storage devices and then dynamically shuffling the location of these blocks, Dispersive Technologies takes data security to a whole new level; offering a holistic security approach that protects both parts of the data equation.

“It really doesn’t do much good to protect stored data if a man-in-the-middle can eavesdrop and capture it during transmission,” notes Twitchell. “We protect data-in-motion with Dispersive Virtualize Networks and data-at-rest with Dispersive SDS. The combined solution is one with a significantly lower probability of data intercept and a minimized risk of information theft.“

Dispersive Storage, a solution based on the SDS platform, will be available in the U.S. market as a cloud-hosted storage solution in late 2015.