When sharing mission-critical information across storage data networks, enforcing security policies can be surprisingly complex and fall short of the ideal enforcement scenario. The use of an Intelligence Community standards-compliant data storage platform to manage secure access empowers the security administrator to enforce security mission requirements.
Managing sensitive information has become a top priority. For example, the use of advanced multi-sensor data collection and analytics tools for modern warfare continues to grow. As a result, situational awareness and timely access to mission-critical information are increasingly the difference between mission success and failure.
Providing mission-critical information often involves making data at different security classification levels widely available – a major security challenge. The Big Data sensor capture, analytics and archiving of muliti-peteabyte file systems further complicates security scalability concerns.
Increasing Multi-Level Security (MLS} requirements are being met by a new generation of data storage solutions. The Seagate Secure Data Appliance is a new Big Data storage solution that is ideally suited for data sensor capture, analytics and on line archive.
The Seagate Secure Data Appliance provides a commercially proven reliability and production performance of up to 1TB/sec and 25PB of storage capacity in a single name space file system. The performance and scalability are ideally suited for geospatial or mutli-sensor mission specific capture and analytics.
The ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance transparently enables Red Hat Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) with the Lustre parallel file system to deliver an Intelligence Community Directive 503 certified Big Data storage solution. Multi-level security is achieved with the Bell-LaPadula model supporting mandatory access control compliance. The model groups protect data storage objects according to different security labels and decide user privileges based on their authorized security clearance levels.
Now, for the first time ever, large geospatial imagery can be stored at any desired ingest performance rate or storage capacity in a single name space storage solution that is Intelligence Community Directive 503 certified. In addition, the security administrator can quickly assign a rank order security access level for all data files within the single name for a high performance parallel file system
The ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance is the first scale-out, secure storage system that successfully addresses the demanding requirements of handling sensitive Big Data and HPC workloads in a multi-level, secure collaborative environment. It is a solution designed for the demanding times we live in.
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