EMC Expands Security Consulting Services

Virtualization and Private Cloud Security: Security assessments for virtualized environments and new services to secure Virtual Desktop Infrastructures, leverage RSA best practices and established safeguards to help build secure virtualized and private cloud environments through technology, policy and program development

Fraud Mitigation and Identity Assurance: A new Fraud Assessment and Strategy service provides actionable recommendations for addressing and mitigating risk, and complements identity assurance, program development, risk management and other comprehensive services to help to reduce the growing cybersecurity threat to the enterprise and mitigate online fraud

Security Operations: Security operations strategy and assessment, analysis and design, and management to build an integrated security operations center

"Today, corporations increasingly realize that siloed, point-solution approaches to security and risk management are not sustainable in hyper-extended and virtualized IT environments," said Vivian Tero, Program Manager for GRC Infrastructure, IDC. "If they are to manage risks dynamically, corporations need to have the ability to put security into the relevant business context and also understand the dependencies across the various IT assets and security compliance activities. The new service offerings from EMC Consulting would be useful for customers who are looking for integrated and proactive solutions." Customers Leverage EMC Consulting to Advance Enterprise Security Strategies

First Data Corporation and MFS are two examples of customers who have recently benefited from security services delivered by EMC Consulting.

"Today First Data announced the launch of an industry-first merchant trial of the our TransArmorSM solution, a data security service that integrates the RSA SafeProxy architecture with First Data's transaction acquiring capabilities to provide a powerful combination of tokenization, encryption and public-key technologies. This solution is designed to enable merchants to eliminate payment card data from their environments keeping their customers' information safe and extending their security beyond the PCI data security standard (PCI DSS)," said Mark Herrington, First Data General Manager of Retail Solutions. "This is a game-changing service that has come to life through a successful engagement with EMC Consulting that helped us create a simplified and scalable security offering that helps our merchant customers improve their overall transaction security and significantly reduce their operational complexity."

"We have a forward-looking approach to risk management and engaged with EMC Consulting to assess the security of our storage area network (SAN) architecture and also the highest levels of performance, availability and security," said James Conz, Chief Security Officer at MFS Investment Management. "Experts from EMC and RSA conducted thorough interviews with our technical professionals and deeply reviewed key aspects of our information infrastructure. This work resulted in additional risk mitigation and an improved approach to security for our critical business and client information assets."

The work of EMC Consulting and RSA experts follows a unique information-centric approach to security

"EMC Consulting is a leader in delivering strategies and programs designed to optimize risk management and accelerate business objectives," said Tom Roloff, Senior Vice President of EMC Consulting, EMC Corporation. "In today's enterprise it is no longer adequate to build walls around the perimeter of the data center. Instead, the unique approach to a sound security posture that the RSA security practice of EMC Consulting follows is one that is information-centric and designed to protect the integrity and confidentiality of information at its source and throughout its lifecycle - no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used."

For more information:

EMC Consulting: www.emc.com/consulting.

RSA announcements and related resources: http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=2830.

At RSA Conference 2010 (March 1-4, San Francisco):

Information-centric security solutions and services are featured at booth 1725

The RSA Partner Pavilion is located at booth 1737

Governance, Risk and Compliance solution and services featuring Archer Technologies (acquired by EMC in January 2010) are located are featured at booth 1338

EMC solutions and services featured at booth 2029 About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.