Assureon™

      The scalable plug-and-play Assureon™ solution incorporates high-density disk hardware combined with robust technology designed to store, manage, protect, dispose of and provide fast, easy access to fixed content and reference data in a cost-effective manner.

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Assureon is based upon a combination of CAS (Content Addressable Storage) with advanced 256-bit AES encryption and other security and data protection technologies. CAS technology produces a unique file identifier or "fingerprint"for all objects, based on their content. Assureon’s object storage model stores files, images, recordings, web pages, etc, as objects with a unique universal identifier. This approach differs from traditional file system models, where an application or user names the file and then places it in a hierarchical file system. Traditional file system models suffer from a lack of scalability and a high management cost.

Assureon's CAS technology provides:

Immutability - because each file fingerprint is based on the specific bit pattern of that file, if a bit is changed then the file fingerprint would be different. Assureon does not allow changes and will detect if any tampering has occurred.
Single-instance storage - one copy of each file is stored, regardless of how many users write that file to storage, giving significant storage-use efficiency.
Scalability - Additional storage can easily be added
Reduces Storage Management Cost - Storage housekeeping tasks, such as formatting file systems, creating volumes and binding LUNs are not necessary
Load Balancing - Enables a uniform distribution of files across available storage locations. Assureon’s load balancing enhances performance and enables storage to scale into the petabytes

Encryption with patent-pending secure encryption key management
A powerful tool to ensure privacy and protect against data theft. Assureon implements encryption on a file by file basis using the AES256 encryption standard.

Scalability - Assureon's performance and capacity scale independently

Assureon’s architecture is not a “pizza box or brick” design whereby a certain number of server nodes need to be configured based upon the amount of storage and the two are locked together - if you want to scale capacity you must also scale performance. Assureon is flexible. Storage capacity can be vastly increased if needed and more server nodes can be added to the configuration for faster performance independent of each other.

Media Independence

In addition to disk, Assureon supports offline media such as tape and optical. By combining CAS single instance store technology with secure encryption on removable media, Assureon reduces costs and prevents any unauthorized access to stored data including security breaches, attacks and lost or stolen tapes.

Encryption
Assureon can encrypt any file, using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES256). When Assureon encryption is enabled, files cannot be viewed even if a hacker manages to compromise security.

Secure Accessibility
Assureon's Access Control has three components.
Authentication verifies that a client is who they say they are
Authorization determines that the client has the appropriate permissions to access the resources they are requesting. Audit logs that can be used to account for any and all access to managed information.

Assured Individual Key Destruction
At the end of an information asset's retention period, Assureon destroys the file's encryption key and all access to that file.

Authentication of Information
When a file is placed under Assureon management, it is processed by dual cryptographic hash functions (MD5 and SHA-1) to create a unique identifier sometimes called hash value, digital fingerprint, CAS (Content Addressable Storage) address or UFID. This unique identifier allows the system to verify that the file has not been altered or inadvertently corrupted.