Most companies continue to turn their backs on backup encryption because they think it will lead to new costs, performance problems, and recovery headaches. Read why ESG believes things are about to change to radically upset the backup encryption status quo and why Spectra Logic's recent entry into backup encryption is worth noting.
New Demands and Requirements for Tape
Encryption
How Spectra Logic BlueScale Encryption Meets User Requirements
By: Jon Oltsik Enterprise Strategy Group January 2006 Enterprise Strategy Group New Demands and Requirements for Tape Encryption
Table of Contents Table of Contents .....................................................................................................................................................i List of Figures ...........................................................................................................................................................i Executive Summary................................................................................................................................................ 2 Backup Encryption Continues To Lag..................................................................................................................... 2 Why Hasn't Tape Encryption Caught On? ..............................................................................................................3 New Business Requirements Demand Backup Encryption..................................................................................... 4 Backup Encryption: Beyond Simply Scrambling the Bits......................................................................................... 5 Spectra Logic: Intelligent Tape Encryption.............................................................................................................. 7 Bottom Line ............................................................................................................................................................ 8
List of Figures Figure 1. Backup Encryption Frequencies................................................................................................................ 3 Figure 2. Tape Encryption Behavior Analyzed by Industry and Company Size ....................................................... 4 Figure 3. What's Needed Beyond Encryption Alone................................................................................................. 6
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Executive Summary In spite of a series of embarrassing "tape loss" headlines in 2005, most companies continue to turn their backs on backup encryption. Why? Most storage professionals still think that backup encryption will lead to new costs, performance problems, and recovery headaches so they continue to turn a blind eye toward the problem. ESG believes things are about to change to radically upset the backup encryption status quo. This white paper concludes: ƒ Backup encryption will move from the storage fringes into the mainstream. Over the next few years, a combination of new privacy regulations, security threats and technology offerings will inspire large organizations to embrace backup encryption. ƒ Users must learn that backup encryption goes beyond scrambling data. As encryption becomes more routine, firms must look past cryptographic operations and consider things like key management, ease-of-use, role-based access control, and key protection. ƒ Spectra Logic's BlueScale Encryption solution is in the right place at the right time. Spectra Logic's recent entry into backup encryption is worth noting. The company has done a good job of matching security protection with management requirements and existing backup operations.
Backup Encryption Continues To Lag The year 2005 will certainly be remembered for the number of publicly-disclosed security breaches related to lost backup tapes. In February, the Bank of America reported that it had lost a box of tapes in transit containing account information on 1.2 million federal employee credit cards. Financial services giant Citicorp suffered the same fate in June, losing tapes holding the personal information of 3.9 million customers. As the year 2005 winds to an end, Marriott Vacation Club International added another record to the lost tape annals. The travel and leisure company announced that it had lost tapes containing 206,000 employee, time-share, and customer records.... [download for more]
