IEEE Approves Standards for Data Encryption - IEEE 1619, IEEE 1619.1
January 13, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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- IEEE 1619 - Standard for Cryptographic Protection of Data on Block-Oriented Storage Devices addresses data storage on disk drives.
- IEEE 1619.1 - Standard for Authenticated Encryption with Length Expansion for Storage Devices deals with data encryption on enterprise-class tape drives.
Electronics & Telecom Standards Collections IEC Standards News Electronics & Telecom Standards "They will help companies to comply with the data-protection requirements of legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and California's SB 1386," said Eric A. Hibbard, vice chair of the Security in Storage (SISWG) Working Group.
"With the approval of the 1619 and 1619.1 standards, the IEEE has simultaneously reinforced the importance of securing storage technologies and ecosystems as well as offered specific mechanisms that can be used to protect sensitive data."
"Security in storage impacts all kinds of financial transactions, third-party storage of corporate data, military operations, health care information and all other segments of the critical infrastructure of society," said Jack Cole, chair of the IEEE Information Assurance Standards Committee, which cosponsored the development of the standards.
"They provide a blueprint for developing encryption systems for storage which are trustworthy and secure because of the multiple reviews the standard went through and interoperable because if everyone uses the standard they can create systems which work together," said Serge Plotkin, task group chair and technical editor for 1619.
IEEE 1619 and 1619.1 are the third and fourth IEEE security in storage standards following IEEE 1667(2007) - Protocol for Authentication of Transiently Connected Storage Devices and IEEE 1244.2 (2000) - Media Management System (MMS) Session Security, Authentication Initialization Protocol (SSAIP).
Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA).