About the Storage Security Industry Forum

Storage security embraces a number of disciplines for securing the storage infrastructure and the data it contains:

• Securing the connection between servers and their storage - particularly important when storage is accessed via a network such as a SAN

• Securing the management of storage components through storage management software and the hardware devices themselves

• Securing data at rest, particularly when storage media leaves the physical protection of a data center

Given the challenges in performance, reliability, long-term retention and complexity that security introduces into the enterprise storage infrastructure, it is critical to provide guidance to IT professionals in successfully assuring storage security, an important and critical discipline in current and future deployments." 

Gordon Arnold, IBM
Storage Security Industry Forum Chair

Meet the SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF), a consortium of storage, security professionals, security practitioners, and academics – all dedicated to fulfill the SNIA vision to:

Enhance information assurance and optimize security investments while maintaining present operational effectiveness in the disparate technologies and standards that work together to form storage ecosystems. 

SSIF members colllaborate to transform their vast body of knowledge and practical experiences in security and storage into high quality educational, technical, and engineering activities that influence the design, use, and management of storage technologies to better protect and secure information. 

Our goal is to increase the overall knowledge and availability of robust security solutions in today’s storage ecosystems and to provide data and information security expertise to contribute to a better understanding of information assurance and how it applies in the organization.

Learn more about our mission and goals, leadership, member benefits, current members, and how to join the SSIF.