backup encryption

How to encrypt backup tapes using more than one method. This article also covers performance issues related to encrypted backups.

Hardly a week goes by without some story in the news about a company leaking important data through loss of their backup tapes. Whether it is through malicious theft, opportunistic snatching, or accidental misplacement, there is a huge cost to a business when data is lost. When the data contains sensitive information about members of the public, possibly including bank account and credit card numbers, the cost can be severe indeed. Simply the stigma of having to notify clients that you’ve lost their data is extremely damaging.

For example, in June 2005, Citigroup was forced to issue a media statement admitting that tapes containing personal information on 3.9 million customers had been lost while the tapes were being carried to another site.

• Author: Kerry Thompson

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