Best Practices

The SNIA security activities (Security Technical Work Group and Storage Security Industry Forum) recognized very early that storage-centric security guidance was needed for use by practitioners, IT architects, IT managers, and corporate executives (CIOs and CSOs, in particular).

The Storage Security Best Current Practices (BCPs) provide broad guidance to organizations seeking to secure their individual storage systems as well as their storage ecosystems. By focusing on best practices rather than a more minimalist set of requirements, organizations have flexibility in how they implement this guidance - as specific technology areas or in a phased approach, and so on.

The recently revised version of the storage security BCPs is available here.

This vendor neutral guidance has a broad scope, covering both storage systems and the entire storage ecosystems. Storage security BCPs have been grouped into core BCPs and technology-specific BCPs.

The core BCPs are applied to all storage systems and ecosystems. The technology-specific BCPs are above and beyond the core BCPs and more than one of these BCPs may be applicable in a given environment.

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