California Credit Union Achieves Regulatory Compliance with Neoscale

Case Study: California Credit Union, revised in 2007
California Credit Union Achieves Regulatory Compliance
and Keeps Customer Information Secure with NeoScale Application Secure Protection of Tape Data Overview "We chose CryptoStor over alternative solutions because it One of the largest credit unions in the United States with over 1 billion in assets, operates transparently and California Credit Union (CCU) maintains and stores personal information on nearly integrates seamlessly with our 80,000 members in its financial systems. It backs up financial systems daily onto tape existing network infrastructure. and sends this tape - with nearly 60 gigabytes of data - to offsite tape storage for NeoScale was the only vendor that provided SCSI-connectivity with disaster recovery purposes. As a financial institution, CCU must adhere to increasingly secure key management between stringent data privacy regulations and make certain that sensitive information stored on our data center and disaster backup tapes remains safe and secure at all times. Through deployment of NeoScale's recovery site." CryptoStor security appliance, CCU has accomplished its objectives by: - Stan Cadiente, VP of Information ƒ Keeping confidential customer information secure at all times Technology, California Credit ƒ Restoring all of its financial systems from encrypted backup tapes to ensure Union disaster preparedness ƒ Encrypting and decrypting 60 gigabytes of data daily, without impacting backup processes Benefits ƒ Remove access and theft risk for tapes leaving the The Challenge data center CCU sought to encrypt its backup tapes for keeping customer data secure in transit and ƒ Enforce confidentiality of in storage at the offsite tape-vault vendor's facility. As a financial institution, CCU was customer data subject to stringent government regulations that included SB1386 and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which required the credit union to protect customer financial ƒ Integrate seamlessly into information from malicious or unintentional breaches of security. With nearly 60 existing infrastructure gigabytes of data to encrypt each night, CCU knew that a software solution was out of the question. ƒ Achieve audit and regulatory privacy compliance The Solution CCU chose CryptoStor Tape over alternative solutions because of its track record in providing transparent operations and seamless integration within customers' existing network infrastructure. NeoScale was the only vendor that provided SCSI connectivity with secure key management between CCU's data center and disaster recovery site. Implemented inline between CCU's IntegraSys application server and Compaq DLT 320 tape backup system, the NeoScale CryptoStor appliance compressed, encrypted, and digitally signed data during tape backup. Because it encrypted all data at wire-speed, CCU saw no performance degradation during backup.
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The Result "Now in production use, CryptoStor has proven to provide critical data With help from NeoScale technology, CCU enhanced its ability to comply with ever-security with simple operation and changing government regulations, protected customers' confidential information, and fast recovery capabilities." kept the organization out of breach headlines. - Stan Cadiente, VP of Information Technology, California Credit Union
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