Enterprise File Fabric™
In an age where Cyber attacks are occurring daily, where even security focused companies are not immune, and in which third party embedded components can cause huge disruption we thought where we thought it would be worthwhile to focus a blog post on what we do to protect the File Fabric from third party software vulnerabilities.
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With so many employees working from home, organizations are looking for ways to enhance the security of their data, often spread between on-premises and cloud data stores, without compromising employee productivity and to comply with cyber insurance policies that may be, being added or renewed.
For enterprises using the Enterprise File Fabric™ , activating Two Factor Authentication (2FA) is an easy way to enhance access security on resources such as remote SMB/file and Object Storage with minimum disruption for end users.
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The File Fabric has many features for safeguarding data and we have published articles describing some of them. The point of this brief post, however, is slightly different. Here I want to discuss how the philosophy behind the File Fabric is as important as any individual feature for protecting enterprise data access.
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In a recent post about authentication with the Enterprise File Fabric™ I briefly mentioned authorization and committed to a follow-up post on that topic. This post explains how the the File Fabric’s authorization features are used to manage user access to directories and their contents on the storage that is attached to the File Fabric. As we’ll see, the File Fabric can use the groups that are set up in authentication system to create a unified security structure that spans all storage. Additionally, for some resources, the File Fabric can import and use established user authorizations and also allow the storage’s native access controls to govern users read and write actions.
Continue reading “CISO Bulletin: Multi-Cloud Authorization With the Enterprise File Fabric™”
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The Enterprise File Fabric™ has a very good internal authentication system. It uses a strong one way hash function, salts the passwords before it hashes them, and stores the hash values and not the passwords. If the File Fabric was the only asset for which an enterprise required access control, then there would be no need for additional authentication options.
by The File Fabric is deployed in a company’s office, data centre or can be deployed on-cloud.
The File Fabric is a software appliance so it can be deployed using VMWARE, Hyper-V, KVM, as an AMI or can be provisioned directly from the Google Marketplace, Amazon Marketplace or Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
Continue reading “Working from Home with the Enterprise File Fabric Explained in 30 Seconds”
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Ransomware is one of the most vexing issues confronting information security professionals. Prevention is difficult, recovery is challenging for legal, ethical and practical reasons and the potential negative impact, in terms of both operations and reputation, can be enormous. So far there is no silver bullet for ransomware but there are ways to facilitate quick and palatable recoveries. The File Fabric’s ForeverFile feature is one such way.
Continue reading “CISO Bulletin: Ransomware Recovery With the Enterprise File Fabric™”
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Initiatives to deploy the Enterprise File Fabric™ are often driven by infrastructure managers who need a way to give WFH workers frictionless access to the organisation’s on-premises and on-cloud data. This is great use case for the File Fabric and we endorse it wholeheartedly. At the same time we think it is also important for the enterprise’s information security professionals to understand the File Fabric’s security features, both so they can ensure that the File Fabric’s configuration aligns with the organisations information risk management standards and also so they can realise operational benefits provided by the File Fabric’s rich security oriented feature set as they go about their work of managing information security risk.
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As every information security professional knows, constant vigilance is required to ensure that enterprise information is adequately protected. The widespread adoption of cloud and hybrid infrastructures over the past decade have only amplified the requirement, and today’s demand for remote working at scale brings yet another set of challenges.
If you are working to keep your organization’s information safe under these dynamic conditions, it may be helpful to be familiar with the ways that the Enterprise File Fabric™ can be configured to provide and enforce strong protection of data through encryption, both in flight and at rest.
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Interest in letting employees to work from home has never been higher and will remain high even after the Covid-19 virus has run its course. For Companies large and small the key challenge is how to make Company data available remotely in a way that is easy for employees to use without compromising on information security. The Enterprise File Fabric™ offers an unmatched set of features to support secure remote working. In this post we’ll see how to set up the File Fabric in less than an hour to provide secure remote access to on-premises data, be that SMB, NAS / SAN or Microsoft DFS shares. The best part is that data is not copied or removed anywhere, it remains in the same secure place and the File Fabric provides web scale secure access to it .
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The Keycloak authentication system will be bundled with the next major release of the File Fabric.
Keycloak is an open source single sign-on Identity Management and Access Management solution for applications and services.
We have integrated Keycloak in a way that makes it secure and convenient to use, just like any of the File Fabric’s existing authentication mechanisms, but it is especially well suited for use with the File Fabric’s Business Groups feature.
Continue reading “File Fabric Group Collaboration Becomes Even Better With Keycloak”
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The File Fabric has two main modes of operation with regard to knowing what files are on a storage provider: cached mode and real-time mode. In cached mode the File Fabric maintains, in its database, metadata about each file on the underlying storage. As files are created, updated and deleted, the changes flow through the File Fabric and the File Fabric updates its metadata accordingly.
Continue reading “Meta-data Sync and Re-Sync Optimizations in v1906 of the Enterprise File Fabric”
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