ABSTRACT
As information technology (IT) moves farther from the relatively safe and secure confines of data center glasshouses and internal physical networks with interfaces for Wi-Fi mobile and Internet computing, security has become even more important than it was in the past. Cloud, virtual machine (VM), and storage networking with remote access enable flexible access of IT resources by support staff, users, and clients on a local and wide area basis. This flexibility, however, also exposes information resources and data to security threats. This means that any desired increased accessibility must be balanced between data protection and business productivity. As networked storage enables storage and information resources to be accessed over longer distances and outside the safe confines of the data center, more security threats exist and more protection is needed.
