Dr. Vijay Ahuja is the president and founder of Cipher Solutions, Inc., a professional services company that assists its clients in implementing storage security and offers customized seminars on storage and network security issues. With over 30 years' experience in networking, information security and storage security, Dr. Ahuja provides great depth to help our searchStorage readers who have questions related to data and network storage security.
His contributions include developing the routing protocols for IBM's networking architecture, introducing early products on single sign on for the security industry, followed by firewalls and other technologies. Dr. Ahuja has worked closely with financial, manufacturing and insurance industries in addressing their data security issues.
Dr. Ahuja has been an industry leader in network security, and more recently in storage security. Prior to starting his current company, Dr. Ahuja was Chief Technology Officer of Arsenal Digital Solutions - a Storage Service Provider. Before joining Arsenal, he was a Principal at Lante Corporation, a Senior Manager at Ernst and Young, and a Program Director at IBM. In each position, he led the company?s efforts in the area of information and network security, and received several awards from both the companies and the industry.
Dr. Ahuja has authored three books: "Network and Internet Security," AP Professional, 1997; "Secure Commerce on the Internet," AP Professional 1997; and, "Design and Analysis of Computer Communication Networks," McGraw Hill, 1984. He has published several papers on security, often speaks at conferences and seminars on security. Dr. Ahuja received a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C.
Contributions from Vijay Ahuja
- Top five security questions to ask storage vendors
- Storage encryption prevents identity theft
- The dangers of Fibre Channel sniffers
- Where are security credentials saved on the server?
- Security concerns for maintaining multiple operating systems on the same host
- Time to try storage smart cards?
- Making DMZ isolated networks safe
- Storage under attack
- A two-dimensional approach to storage security
- What regulatory compliance means for storage security
- How to secure NFS access to NAS devices
- Security and management networks, a dynamic duo
- Five reasons you should be concerned about SAN security
- How to identify SAN paths and implement access control
- Securing your SAN over FC
- How to make sure your IP storage is secure
- Be safe, not sorry -- addressing the business side of storage security
- Cross-country WAN security
- Storage security starts with data protection
- Hidden NAS security issues