Brocade MyView is a resource access management solution that provides personalized, secure access to Windows file resources across the enterprise, improving data security and compliance practices.


Today's IT organizations face a variety of challenges in managing the security of their distributed data, which continues to grow at a rate of 50 to 75 percent a year. In fact, current data security solutions do not adequately provide security, compliance, or data administrators with a comprehensive view into internal enterprise file data access rights. In addition, users often have difficulty knowing which resources they can access and where those resources are located.
 



To address these challenges, Brocade MyView provides a central view of access and authorization rights to distributed file data throughout the enterprise. It enables:

• Administrators to view enterprise-wide user access and authorization to resources from a single, unified console
• Users to view and access resources throughout an enterprise via personalized and virtualized namespaces
• Security auditors to easily monitor and report which users have access to which resources

A key component of Brocade MyView is the Global Resource Access Matrix (GRAM), which gives administrators and auditors detailed reporting capabilities and a central view of user access rights to distributed data. Brocade MyView also utilizes the industry-leading Global Namespace technology to provide users with a single, customized view (or personalized namespace) of their resources.

Role	Benefits
Security Auditors	• Enables accurate, streamlined auditing and reporting of users and their accessible file resources
Administrators	• Generates reports indicating enterprise-wide user access and authorization to resources • Protects and preserves enterprise security rules and policies • Documents the file resource security model over time
Users	• Provides personalized, customized views of accessible file resources • Simplifies access to data and enables data sharing

• Simplifies auditing and reporting of data security permissions for compliance purposes
• Utilizes the Microsoft Active Directory security model and user credentials, restricting users to only the resources they are permitted to access
• Reduces administrative workload through automated provisioning and management of personalized namespaces based on users, groups, and share permissions
• Improves productivity by enabling users to view resources in a logical, intuitive manner
• Organizes namespaces categorically by criteria such as owner, department, location, and permission

"Storage, data management, and security are merging into a new discipline. It's no longer just about managing storage, it is about protecting vital corporate information from external, as well as internal threats. MyView is a perfect example of the kind of user-friendly innovation we need to see in order to create information security controls across the infrastructure. The timing for this offering is excellent."

Brad O'Neill, Senior Analyst, Taneja Group