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Expert eBook: Encryption: Properly Securing Your Valuable Data by Information Security Magazine
for protecting your company's data with encryption technology. There have already been 449 data breach incidents this year and that number will continue to grow. The challenges of protecting confidential information are forcing companies to...
Protecting Personal Data in Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise by Sybase, Inc.
modifications, which means that data encryption can be implemented quickly without disturbing existing implementations. Second, it has intrinsic key management to easily manage and protect encryption keys. Finally, encryption is easy to implement through...
Securing Data Stored on Tape with Encryption: How to Choose the Right Encryption Key Management Solution by Quantum Corporation
and integrity. Luckily, the data encryption capabilities built into every Quantum LTO-4 tape drive can help organizations prevent a costly and embarrassing security breach.

The right encryption key management solution can help minimize the impact of...
Where Encryption Fits Best by Storage Magazine
There are numerous places to embed encryption into your backup infrastructure. Considering key management and performance issues, here are our recommendations. Encryption secures data and makes it accessible only to those individuals or applications with...
Protecting Your Business from Costly Data Theft: Why Hardware-Based Encryption Is the Answer by Wave Systems
companies evaluate protection of data in the enterprise. This white paper discusses the promise of FDE hard drives and examines the key advantages of FDE for min... The availability of the first fully encrypting hard drives for notebook PCs will alter how...
Oracle Advanced Security Technical White Paper by Oracle Corporation
45;based security that protects data on the network, on disk and on backup media. Operating in today's global business environment presents numerous security and compliance challenges. The economic benefits of outsourcing must be coupled with...
Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive by Sun StorageTek
reliability, performance, and data security to support demanding, 24x7 datacenter operations. The Sun StorageTek T10000B enterprise tape drive blends highest capacity, reliability, performance, and data security to support demanding,...
Efficient SAN Based Tape Encryption with Curtis Preston by Cisco Systems, Inc.
that transparently encrypts data inside the storage environment without slowing or disrupting business critical applications. Watch this webcast to hear leading industry analyst Curtis Preston and Cisco expert Doug Anderson offer tips to...
Tape Encryption FAQ by Sony Electronics Inc.
ascended to the top of the list of data center requirements due to increasing disclosures by high-profile organizations regarding the loss or theft of non-encrypted tapes containing sensitive personal and business-critical information. The urgency...
Employing Best Practices for Mainframe Tape Encryption by CA
best practices for mainframe tape encryption. Encryption for mainframe tapes has rapidly ascended to the top of the list of data center requirements due to increasing disclosures by high-profile organizations regarding the loss or theft of non-encrypted tapes...
Cisco Storage Media Encryption: Meeting the Security Challenge by Cisco Systems, Inc.
to Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME), a heterogeneous, standards-based encryption solution for data at rest with comprehensive built-in key-management features. Unfortunately, storage and network virtualization adoption has also increased the...
Full Disk Encryption - Your Best Defense against Data Breach by Wave Systems
encryption is fast becoming the data protection method of choice for organizations seeking to stay in compliance with recently enacted data protection laws. But integrating solutions for encrypting data at rest can be costly and complex. Unti... Full...
Layer8: Data Leak Fatigue by Information Security Magazine
would conclude that the rate of data leakage has suddenly increased dramatically, putting individuals at huge risk of identity theft. Based on media coverage, an outside observer would conclude that the rate of data leakage has suddenly increased...
Mainframe Tape Technology: Eight Myths, Realities and Best Practices by CA
solution that ensures your data is not breached even if the tapes fall into the wrong hands. A dependable backup plan is especially crucial in the virtualized data center, and tape storage can be used to improve data management and operational...
SQL Server 2008: What to Expect by Global Knowledge
using more than just relational data. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has many great new features that will allow you to develop higher performing, more scalable next-generation applications using more than just relational data. Although this release...
Storage Standards: A Progress Report by Storage Magazine
it much easier to manage storage and data. Four storage standards (SMI-S, XAM, encryption key management and FAIS) promise to make it much easier to manage storage and data.

Several storage standards are emerging that will help storage administrators manage...
Ensure Data Protection with Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drives by Sun StorageTek
Key Management System to encrypt data, and how Volsafe technology helps your business meet electronic, regulatory, and legal requirements. Learn how Sun StorageTek T-series tape drives use a Crypto-Key Management System to encrypt data, and how Volsafe...
ITCentrix Report: An IT View of Services-Oriented Storage by Hitachi Data Systems
Services-oriented storage has the potential to evolve the relationship between storage administrators and business lines from one that today focuses on storage as an impediment to one that emphasizes storage as an enabler of application optimization. The storage industry is poised to leverage the SOA trend and apply the...
Data Leakage Landscape: Where Data Leaks Occur and How Next Generation Tools Apply by Utimaco Safeware
This paper maps common data leakage points, detailing solution and explaining regulations and best practices. This paper maps the leakage points with regulations and best practices. Protection mechanisms can be simplified by breaking them...
Data Protection Laws and Compliance: A Growing Concern for the Modern Enterprise by Wave Systems
summarizes the nature of the risk of data breach resulting from a lost or stolen laptop PC, the relevant legal standards for compliance and reasonable care, and finally the extent to which full disk encryption and remote admini... This white paper...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set that also includes conventional disk backup, tape, replication, and encryption. Quantum's solutions allow data de...
MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software: The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
44; and mobile. Virtualization of the data center, which includes servers, storage, and networks, has addressed some of the challenges related to consolidation, space constraints, demand for high power, and cooling requirements. End-to-end...
7 Requirements of Data Loss Prevention by Symantec Corporation
of the capabilities a successful data loss prevention solution must deliver. It also incorporates insight into the capabilities that companies require from their solution. Global organizations and government agencies require more than network...
Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security by Proofpoint, Inc.
and their own freely downloaded encryption
•IT departments need a way to automate the detection and protect of confidential and private outgoing information
•Solutions must include easy to use, policy-based encryption to make it simple to securely...
ECO Responsible Tape Right for Every Storage Strategy by Sun StorageTek
easy to implement storage-based encryption--for operational and archival data--without performance impact. The Sun Crypto KeyManagement System (KMS) 2.0 makes it easy to implement storage-based encryption--for operational and archival data-...
IT Briefing: Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
provide unique byte-level data deduplication, a compression technology necessary to do an efficient job of backing up to disk. Tape-based backup solutions are fraught with problems. Restore time from tape is prohibitive and tape proliferation...
The Importance of Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan Regularly by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
plan that includes restoring data from backup as a primary component? How many of you test your disaster recovery plan regularly? How many people can tell when their next disaster recovery plan is scheduled? Are you willing to bet your job on...
IT Briefing: Key Issues in Messaging Archiving by Sunbelt Software
security, archiving, and encryption. Osterman Research conducts a lot of primary research, mostly among IT professionals and end users. This research is conducted in order to learn about the problems they are experiencing, what motivates the...
6 Best Practices for Preventing Enterprise Data Loss by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
can follow to prevent enterprise data loss in order to protect revenue, limit customer attrition, and meet government regulatory requirements. Nearly 220 million records have been breached since January 2005, according to Privacy Rights...
EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) by Wave Systems
and passwords. ETS 6 also provides data protection, password management, TPM management, and TPM key backup/recovery. ETS 6 integrates with Wave's enterprise servers for domain-based strong authentication, for enterprise level key management, and for...
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(RPOs) by supporting more frequent recovery points. When properly implemented, snapshot data can be used to restore lost files or recover from more substantial data loss. Features like data deduplication are also appearing in snapshots to reduce disk storage requirements, allowing for many more snapshots and longer retention periods. Below are a series... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
as backup targets. Storage space is finite, which can limit the allowable retention period for data. Data reduction technologies like data deduplication and delta differencing can dramatically extend the effective storage capacity. Also, indexing and search are can be valuable when rapid file organization and location are needed. Below are a series of best... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
The role of tape is clearly changing, shifting away from everyday data backup and moving toward deep archiving or offsite storage, but tape is still an important element of many data centers. Storage professionals must contend with concerns about tape performance and reliability that have remained almost unchanged for decades. In... More...
FAQ's
Can you explain the various ways to encrypt tape?
The most recent addition is a tape level or device level encryption. We've heard of STK and LTO-4, there are a number of devices available for LTO-4 and device level encryption at the hardware level.

There are also appliances you can use and those have been around for a little while longer. Examples of... More...

Are there any major drawbacks to using tape encryption?
Probably the biggest one: You lose your keys; you lose your data. This deserves the most consideration and you need to have the best possible key management.

Also, if you plan on encrypting at the client level, that may cause some issues if you have implemented deduplicaiton within your... More...

What are the benefits of using a virtual tape library (VTL) for data deduplication?
Well, there are a few big use cases right now that are driving data deduplication to the forefront of the decision-making that's going on in backup environments. The bottom line is data deduplication is dramatically changing the economics of using disk as a backup target as opposed to tape. You... More...