SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Transport Layer Security
A protocol suite defined by the IETF that provides privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications, using higher-level protocols that can layer on top of the TLS protocol transparently.
There are multiple versions of TLS, which are not compatible with each other, and early versions are considered less secure and should not be used. Multiple SNIA specifications leverage TLS as an important security mechanism; to ensure both security and interoperability, SNIA has published the SNIA TLS specification for storage systems (also ISO/IEC 20648) to identify specific requirements and guidance for TLS when it is used in conjunction with these SNIA specifications.
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Data Security