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Tech Road Map: EKMI
David Brown, Managing Consultant, Security Advisory Services
InformationWeek.com 06.28.2008
Information security pros do put stock in encryption--it was named the third-most-effective security practice in our most recent Strategic Security Survey, behind only firewalls and antivirus products. However, there have been obstacles along the path to ubiquitous encryption of data, including weak ciphers, deployment and integration issues, and, perhaps most notably, key management.

Protecting Your Information Assets: The Crossroads of Data Storage and Data Security
Pamla Frredericks, Director, Security Advisory Services
James E. Geis, Director, Integrated Solutions Development
Information Storage and Security Journal 02.28.2006
Ever since the introduction of Open Systems into the data center, a problem has been brewing. Too often, the storage environment isn’t seen as an area with security considerations. Until recently, corporate security policies rarely considered the data center storage environment; sometimes there was no real link between the two. Security was managed at the operating system level or within applications, and a storage location was seen as purely a physical hardware issue with little bearing on user access or security controls.