HP, IBM and EMC lead the way to universal encryption

Encryption took a big step towards ubiquity across IT with a proposal from the leaders of the IT hardware industry last week. 

HP, IBM and EMC’s RSA Security, along with Seagate, Thales Group, Brocade and LSI Corp, submitted a new standard that will pave the way for servers, storage systems, networking gear, tape and disk drives –  even notebooks – to use a common encryption key management system.

Boring backroom stuff to some.  But a standard like this can do for data security what the standard rail gauge did for transportation in the 19th Century.