Introducing IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security
IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security (IFCES) is designed to protect data that is transferred over Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs). It consists of two components:
•Link authentication
•Encryption of data in flight (EDIF)
In this chapter, we first discuss the general need for data protection and encryption. Then we explain the benefits of IFCES and how it fits into the IBM Z® Pervasive Encryption strategy.
We complete the introduction with a high-level functional overview of the solution. ...
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