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Enterprises and government organizations are amassing terabytes of data into networked storage environments as they seek to improve access to information and simplify network management. By nature, these storage networks do not provide boundaries to partition data from different groups, departments or users, leaving information aggregated and highly vulnerable to unauthorized access.

Decru, a NetApp company (NASDAQ: NTAP), develops storage security solutions to address critical business requirements, including data privacy, regulatory compliance, intellectual property protection, and internal controls. Decru was founded in 2001, and provides security solutions to many of the world's largest enterprise and government customers.

There are a number of trends driving storage security requirements:

	Insider Threat: While organizations have spent billions on perimeter security measures, research shows that a significant percentage of attacks come from inside the firewall.
	Storage Consolidation: Data consolidation projects continue to aggregate data into networked storage environments, removing physical barriers and increasing the stakes if there is a breach.
	Replication: Because of backup and disaster recovery programs, multiple copies of data are made. These copies are frequently distributed outside the datacenter, significantly increasing the number of access points.
	Outsourcing: As organizations seek to control costs and improve efficiency, they are increasing outsourcing IT functions, resulting in company outsiders with access to data.
	Regulatory Compliance: A growing number of privacy regulations, such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA), California's SB1386, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), are putting pressure on organizations to ensure the privacy of the data they capture and maintain.

Decru DataFort® storage security appliances are available in several models: DataFort E-Series appliances support CIFS, NFS and iSCSI connectivity; DataFort FC-Series appliances support 2-gig Fibre Channel for disk and/or tape; and DataFort S-Series appliances are targeted for SCSI tape environments. Additional software is available to automate key archiving, clustering and failover, and endpoint security.

Decru DataFort® storage security appliances protect data at rest and in flight from unauthorized access. Key benefits include:

	Military-Grade security. Decru DataFort combines AES-256 encryption, secure access controls, layered authentication, and key management with a hardened architecture specifically designed to protect data in SAN, NAS, DAS, iSCSI, and mainframe and open systems tape backup environments.
	Wire-speed throughput. Decru's Storage Encryption Processor (SEP) is the heart of DataFort, fully optimized for multi-gigabit speed, full duplex encryption. Because encryption is done in silicon, DataFort can be deployed into high performance storage networks without performance degradation.
	Transparency. Decru DataFort is designed to interoperate with the existing network infrastructure, working seamlessly with existing applications, servers, switches and storage devices. Its operation is completely transparent to the user, making it easy to install and administer.

Decru has been shipping Decru DataFort appliances for over three years, and has customers on three continents in sectors including financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, media, semiconductors, aerospace, manufacturing, and government.

Decru's SEP, clustering and key management been validated by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for compliance with FIPS 140-2 level 3 (Cert #439). DataFort's AES-256, SHA-256 and SHA-512 encryption implementations have also been validated. Decru DataFort has been certified by the US Department of Defense for compliance with DoD 5015.2, for secure records management. Decru has engaged a lab for Common Criteria certification, and is targeting EAL4+, with an additional evaluation by the NSA.

Decru has established partnerships with all major vendors in storage networking, including Network Appliance, EMC, Sun, Cisco, Oracle, McDATA, IBM, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, Brocade, ADIC, Quantum and many others. Find a complete list at www.decru.com/partners/technology.htm.

In 2004, Decru was named "Top 10 - Most Likely to Succeed" by Dow Jones, named as one of "12 Hot Startups" by Business 2.0 magazine, and included in Red Herring's Top 100 Private Companies. Decru DataFort received eWeek's 2005 Excellence Award for Best Storage Hardware, among many other awards.

Decru was acquired by Network Appliance on August 26, 2005. Decru operates as an independent division within NetApp.