Cisco and EMC shall extend their alliance to help customers strengthen data security. Companies disclose plan to expand their collaboration in DLP, PCI Compliance, Data Center Security, Data Encryption and Key Management.

Cisco and EMC announced the intention to expand their strategic alliance to offer customers holistic data security solutions that span different layers of the information technology (IT) infrastructure, including storage, servers, networks and data center security.  The companies plan to build on their existing collaboration to develop integrated products, services and best practices by taking advantage of resources and technology from Cisco, EMC, and RSA, the Security Division of EMC.  These will be designed to provide customers with the ability to discover, secure, track and enforce the usage of sensitive data stored in the data center and at desktop and server endpoints, as well as while sensitive data is transmitted across enterprise networks. 

• Integration of Data Loss Prevention - Cisco and RSA intend to collaborate in various areas of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and provide a rich set of DLP professional service offerings to enterprise customers. 
• Collaboration in Data Center Security, Data Encryption and Key Management - Cisco and RSA also intend to continue to collaborate in the area of data center security, data encryption and key management.  Customers will soon be able to encrypt data-at-rest stored on tapes and virtual tapes through the integration of Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Media Encryption (SME) and the RSA® Key Manager. 
• Expand PCI Reference Architectures - Cisco and RSA also plan to expand on their PCI reference architecture which helps enable customers to audit and run reports on their systems to ensure compliance with PCI regulations.  The broader data-security reference architecture will showcase how customers can discover and monitor sensitive information and will provide the appropriate enforcement controls.

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