Data Protection Solutions for Federal Government
Databases, file servers and cloud computing infrastructure are a critical and indispensable part of all U.S. government agencies, and its national security community, IT infrastructure. These systems enable real-time information processing necessary for ongoing operations. For hackers and malicious insiders, however, these data repositories and the sensitive data they host represent an opportunity to capture valuable data.
As more and more data is consolidated into centralized data centers, more data can be comprised at a single location by a potentially larger group of privileged users – increasing the data security risk. Breaches at the state and federal government level continue to occur and continue to inspire new legislation and new requirements for data protection within government agencies. The potential loss of public trust in the agencies who keep personal information on millions of Americans has inspired the government to take action. Laws such as the Federal Information Security Management act of 2002 (FISMA and the Privacy Act already require protection of sensitive data. With the creation of the Identity Theft Task Force, government agencies are now required to develop and implement plans and procedures to sufficiently protect against breaches and notify those at risk when breaches do occur.
Federal agencies depend on Vormetric Data Security to control and protect sensitive information. The Vormetric Data Security solution can:
- Apply strong encryption to protect sensitive data
- Digitally sign hosts and application services to prevent unauthorized insider access to data
- Leverage existing application and OS level authentication and authorization
- Enforce least privilege access to sensitive data based on who, what, when, where and how policies
- Log and audit access to sensitive data in a heterogeneous environment
- Comply with the FIPS 140-2 Standard
