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Securing Data Stored on Tape with Encryption: How to Choose the Right Encryption Key Management Solution by Quantum Corporation
to generate and communicate encryption keys and it is a proven, easy-to-use, library-managed encryption solution designed to protect sensitive data throughout the enterprise. Securing data from unauthorized access is a critical issue for businesses in...
Expert eBook: Encryption: Properly Securing Your Valuable Data by Information Security Magazine
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 deploy encryption...
Tape Encryption FAQ by Sony Electronics Inc.
the key concerns regarding tape encryption and the benefits it offers. 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...
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...
Protecting Personal Data in Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise by Sybase, Inc.
putting it on the media. Sybase ASE’s encryption option provides several distinct advantages for protecting data. First, it requires no application or schema modifications, which means that data encryption can be implemented quickly without disturbing...
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
Full disk 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...
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...
Mainframe Tape Technology: Eight Myths, Realities and Best Practices by CA
CA Tape Encryption is an innovative, flexible, easily implemented comprehensive z/OS tape protection solution that ensures your data is not breached even if the tapes fall into the wrong hands. A dependable backup plan is especially...
Storage Standards: A Progress Report by Storage Magazine
standards (SMI-S, XAM, encryption key management and FAIS) promise to make 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...
Data Protection Laws and Compliance: A Growing Concern for the Modern Enterprise by Wave Systems
the extent to which full disk encryption and remote admini... This white paper 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...
Data Leakage Landscape: Where Data Leaks and How Next Generation Tools Apply by Utimaco Safeware
access controls, encryption, filtering for data sensitive data types being sent out of the organization, and education. In addition to traditional malware defenses, encryption and access controls play a huge role in protecting sensitive data...
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...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
disk backup, tape, replication, and encryption. 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, all supported...
Oracle Advanced Security Technical White Paper by Oracle Corporation
provides complete standards-based encryption that does not require any costly changes to existing applications and can help organizations achieve operational efficiencies in today’s difficult economy...
Protecting Your Business from Costly Data Theft: Why Hardware-Based Encryption Is the Answer by Wave Systems
The availability of the first fully encrypting hard drives for notebook PCs will alter how 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...
ECO Responsible Tape Right for Every Storage Strategy by Sun StorageTek
it 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--without...
Learn how Cisco MDS enables an efficient and a cost effective Storage Area Network-based solution by Cisco Systems, Inc.
You'll learn about a network-based encryption technique that transparently encrypts data inside the storage environment without slowing or disrupting business critical applications. Get the information you need to alleviate some of the most challenging...
IT Briefing: Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User’s Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
ExaGrid systems 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 is a concern. These problems can be solved by backing up to disk; data...
Key Issues in Messaging Archiving by Sunbelt Software
including 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 decisions...
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...

Tape Encryption FAQ
Director with Long View Systems Inc., answers today's most common tape encryption questions. His answers are also available below as an MP3 download.

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>>Why should I encrypt tape?
>>Can you explain the various ways to encrypt tape?
>>What are the benefits of using LTO-4?
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Why should I encrypt tape?
or personal information that can not end up in the wrong hands.

Tape encryption is especially needed in this instance if the tape media leaves your premises, which technically, if you're following backup best practices, it should. You should be sending a copy of your backups to a vault site, so therefore you want... More...