Patent ID: 8423780

Claim:
A security apparatus for accessing data in a data container stored on a storage system, comprising: a secure interface; a clear-text interface; an encryption device configured to receive a first command using a first data storage protocol via the clear-text interface, wherein the first command includes a command information and a data payload, wherein the command information includes an instruction to store the data payload in the data container, the encryption device further configured to distinguish the command information from the data payload, the encryption device further configured to associate the data container with a first random value; the encryption device further configured to encrypt the data payload using an encryption key and the first random value; and the encryption device further configured to transmit via the secure interface a second command using a second data storage protocol, wherein the second command includes the encrypted data payload and the command information, wherein the command information is unencrypted, wherein the second data storage protocol is different than the first data storage protocol, and wherein the both first and second data storage protocols are selected from a group consisting of NFS, CIFS, iSCSI and Fibrechannel.