Qsent Calls NeoScale for Encryption Assistance

Case Study: Qsent, revised in 2007
Qsent Calls NeoScale for Encryption Assistance Application Secure Tape Backup and Recovery "It's not just peace of mind, it's business continuity. If something Overview happened and we lost this data, we would most likely go out of business. With NeoScale, we Qsent is the leading provider of Contact Identity Services based in Beaverton, Oregon. have an air-tight disaster recover Entrusted by corporations, Qsent ensures that sensitive data will always be up-to-date strategy that lets us not only stay and accurate, while safe and secure from prying eyes. competitive, but also stay in business." When Qsent was selected by six major wireless carriers to create and manage the first- of-its-kind nationwide 411 directory service for cellular telephone numbers, the - Derek Olson, UNIX Systems company realized that it needed to shore up its disaster recovery strategy. This meant Administrator, Qsent sending backup tapes - each with more than 2.5 terabytes of data - between data centers and storing them offsite. To keep all its data safe and secure, Qsent chose NeoScale's CryptoStor wire-speed tape security appliance to encrypt and decrypt data. Benefits Since turning to NeoScale, Qsent has been able to:
ƒ Keep sensitive data safe ƒ Keep sensitive information secure at all times and secure ƒ Implement different levels of security for onsite and offsite tape storage ƒ Encrypt and decrypt data without impacting back-up processes ƒ Share encrypted data across data centers ƒ No impact to backup The Challenge window Used by organizations worldwide for fraud assessment, customer development, and ƒ Stay out of the security collections and recovery applications, Qsent is the trusted authority in online contact breach headlines! authentication services. Its multi-terabyte, multi-billion-record databases provides accurate, up-to-date customer information, including telephone numbers and street addresses for individuals, companies and government agencies throughout the United States. This kind of information must be kept safe from unauthorized access or worse yet, theft - at all times. For disaster recovery purposes, Qsent must ensure that its mirrored data centers in Portland and Chicago are in synch. Because the databases are too large to do this efficiently in real time over the network, the company ships backup tapes between the data centers. The challenge is making sure that the data remains secure during transit. The Solution Qsent purchased two NeoScale CryptoStor Tape 700 appliances, one for each of its data centers. The NeoScale appliance sat in front of the tape library, compressing, encrypting, and digitally signing data as it went to tape or virtual tape. Tightly integrated with Qsent's existing Veritas NetBackup solution, the NeoScale appliance understood NetBackup encryption policies, so that tapes destined for different locations could be encrypted according to different policies - without human intervention.
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The Solution Continued "NeoScale solutions will be an intrinsic part of our future Data encrypted with one NeoScale CryptoStor Tape appliance could be decrypted corporate growth." using another one, which was a key advantage for Qsent. According to Olson, "Sharing encrypted data between like devices in geographically disparate sites is important to us, - Derek Olson, UNIX Systems because we often use the backup infrastructure to get large sets of data from Portland Administrator, Qsent to Chicago - and vice versa - to keep the mirrors in place. With NeoScale, we can do this easily and quickly, whereas some of the competitive products we evaluated did not have this feature." The Result The CryptoStor appliance encrypted and decrypted Qsent's data at wire-speed without affecting the backup infrastructure. CryptoStor dynamically intercepted backup/restore communications between hosts and tape libraries, centrally managing and fully off-loading tape media security functions. "The NeoScale appliance encrypts and decrypts on the fly, so the backup infrastructure is never affected by the encryption process. We never experience any performance degradation," said Olson. With help from NeoScale, Qsent kept its data current and its data centers mirro... [download for more]