DiS Paranoia

Encryption and Security

The importance of data and system security is becoming more and more important to today's businesses. Storage Partners can provide you with the best anti-virus and password protection software in addition to the security protocols inbuilt into your network. Never assume that the security systems that are built into your original setup are good enough to protect you.

Never underestimate the time, expense, and effort an opponent will expend to break a code. (Robert Morris)

What would happen if someone stole your backup disks? Some companies take their backup disks home - what if someone broke into your garage or your car; would they be able to use your data? Recent news reports highlight the issues of identity theft, and the fines imposed on various UK banks when they lost laptops.

Businesses really need to be asking themselves whether employees need to be carrying around sensitive customer data like bank account details on a laptop. If a criminal steals this information and uses it to commit identity fraud the implications for a financial institution would be huge. (Donal Casey, Morse)

In America last year, a health care firm lost it's backup tapes when an employees car was broken into. Although originally they thought the thief couldnt use the tapes to obtain confidential information, they since discovered that the data was merely password protected, which could be easily hacked.

"We are encrypting all the material we can encrypt now," as the health care system reviews all of its procedures and security, he said. "We are sorry that this happened and we don't want it to happen again." (Health system spokesman Gary Walker)

To protect your company from the possible implications of losing your data, and having that used to commit crime, Storage Partners can offer you various encryption offerings, some protect data to military standards.

Paranoia2 is the latest version of DiS security and encryption product. The benefits of this system are:

• Secure data whilst in transit 
• Internal privacy when using a shared tape silo 
• Secure transit of confidential data by commercial couriers 
• Ensure data integrity of legal information 
• Ensure patient record confidentiality

Contact Storage Partners to discuss Paranoia and security products today.