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By Michael Eggebrecht
EMC Corp. announced Monday that it is bolstering the security consulting services provided by its RSA division, integrating the offerings with those from EMC Consulting and recently acquired vendor Archer Technologies.
According to the storage giant, RSA will provide clients with security assessments for virtualized environments, combining RSA best practices with EMC’s IT infrastructure knowledge . Also new is a fraud assessment and strategy service that will help customers address enterprise hacking threats and mitigate online fraud.
Spinning out of its deal for Archer Technologies, an Overland, Kan.-based governance, risk and compliance software provider that EMC bought for an undisclosed price in January, RSA is also launching a policy-driven management service. EMC says that the new service will “translate business objectives into policies and information risk strategies, delivered through technology, policy and program development, to help meet regulatory compliance and governance requirements.”
When the Archer acquisition was announced, RSA president Art Coviello noted that “the Archer solution not only provides the visibility into risk and compliance that customers need, it brings stronger policy management issues into the RSA portfolio.” Archer customers include Bank of America, RBC Royal Bank and Procter & Gamble.
EMC also says that RSA will help clients build integrated security operations centers. The announcement came at the company’s annual RSA Conference in San Francisco.
“Corporations increasingly realize that siloed, point-solution approaches to security and risk management are not sustainable in hyper-extended and virtualized IT environments,” said Vivian Tero, program manager for GRC infrastructure at research firm IDC, in a statement provided by RSA. “If they are to manage risks dynamically, corporations need to have the ability to put security into the relevant business context and also understand the dependencies across the various IT assets and security compliance activities.”
EMC also announced that First Data Corp., an e-commerce and payment processing company, has started a pilot of its TransArmor data security service. TransArmor, which combines First Data’s transaction-acquiring capabilities with RSA’s SafeProxy architecture, removes payment card data during processing so that merchants don’t have to store cardholder data. More than 400 U.S. merchants will test the system, which combines tokenization, encryption and public-key technologies, over the next fourth months.
"In today’s enterprise it is no longer adequate to build walls around the perimeter of the data center,” said EMC Consulting SVP Tom Roloff in a statement. “Instead, the unique approach to a sound security posture that the RSA security practice of EMC Consulting follows is one that is information-centric and designed to protect the integrity and confidentiality of information at its source and throughout its lifecycle.”
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