Overview
For more than fifty years, Oregon Community Credit Union (OCCU), the third largest credit union in Oregon with more than 90,000 members and more than $700 million in assets, is serving central Oregon residents with an innovative range of products and services. Oregon Community Credit Union takes member services seriously by offering leading edge security solutions to protect members’ sensitive data.
The Challenge
With horror stories in the news every week about lost or stolen laptops and backup tapes, the senior management team at OCCU knew they had to do everything within their powers to protect their critical data as it traveled offsite to a third-party tape vaulting vendor. They also took into account the growth of identity theft and network intrusions when they considered the heightened need for backed-up data to be secured during transit and in storage. Joseph Bongcayao, CCEA and Information Systems Specialist at the credit union was tasked with finding an affordable solution that would strike a balance between security, ease of use, and scalability.
The Solution
At the time tape encryption was somewhat of an emerging market. Bongcayao worked hard to find solutions that would meet all of these requirements. "We knew from the outset that we did not want a software solution that would put too much strain on our servers," he explained. That requirement eliminated many tape backup vendors whose software was far too slow and resource intensive. Bongcayao searched the Internet, went to various discussion groups, and generally performed a great deal of due diligence in his search for an appliance-based solution that would give him the performance levels that he was looking for. His research eventually led him to the NeoScale CryptoStor® Tape appliance, the first enterprise-class data protection and privacy appliance specifically designed for tape media.
Because of Oregon Community Credit Union's complex environment, Bongcayao said "We really needed a high performance appliance that would meet our nightly backup window; NeoScale fit that description." In fact, Oregon Community Credit Union purchased two systems: one for their system backups and the other for their host system. These two systems fed the NeoScale CryptoStor® Tape appliance that directed the encrypted output to ADIC tape drives.
The Result
In terms of return on investment (ROI), Bongcayao pointed out “the cost to notify our members just one time in the event of a tape loss would exceed the cost of the NeoScale system.” Indirect costs such as bad publicity could be avoided by encrypting back up tapes to protect data stored offsite. Bongcayao concluded “the NeoScale solution works extremely well and the support has been very good. We have tested our backups and restored information and the system is running smoothly.”
NeoScale At A Glance
-Founded in 2000, NeoScale is the trusted leader in enterprise storage security and a recognized authority in Global Key Management
-Headquartered in the Silicon Valley, CA, NeoScale solutions are globally deployed in more than 35 countries
-Tamper proof appliance-based solutions with true wire-speed encryption of data on disk, virtual tape, or tape media
-Award-winning global key management to ensure customers’ business continuity and productivity in sharing sensitive information across the extended enterprise
-Successfully driving partnerships with vendors of encryption devices and software applications that are deployed throughout the enterprise IT infrastructure, from mainframes to open systems.
-Nearly 300 customers worldwide, including a fifth of the Global 50 companies, Fortune 500 financial institutions, healthcare organizations, domestic and foreign government agencies, as well as small-medium enterprises
-For more information, visit www.neoscale.com.
