Backup Basics – Encrypt Your Data
By ajohnson June 3, 2008 @ 8:47 amI received an email from a co-worker yesterday and thought I’d share it with you.
Subject Line: Another reason not to use truck-based vaulting services!
Besides the fact that truck-based vaulting is going to get very, very expensive because of rising fuel costs… losing tapes seems to be an increasing problem for off-site tape backup service providers.
“Bank of New York Mellon Corp. officials last week confirmed that a box of unencrypted data storage tapes holding personal information of more than 4.5 million individuals was lost more than three months ago by a third-party vendor during transport to an off-site facility,” reported Brian Fonseca from Computerworld.
Ouch!!!!!! Someone forgot the “IT 101″ of off-site tape vaulting - encrypt your tapes!!
