EMC Deal Aimed at Securing Stored Data - Acquisition of RSA is Intended to Handle the Encryption of Tape and Disk Storage

Vendor Management

EMC Corp.'s recent acquisition of RSA Inc. underscores the convergence of information security and storage. EMC, which sells large storage systems for use in corporate data centers, bought RSA - a manufacturer of encryption software and devices - to provide it with identity and access management technologies and encryption and key management software, which will help EMC deliver information lifecycle management.

RSA manufactures password tokens that companies can give to customers and employees in order to securely authenticate users; Bank of America employs these tokens in its SiteKey system for securing online access to banking applications.

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