Say no to third parties physically transporting your back-up tapes

Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter

By Mike Karp, Network World, 05/10/05

In an era that has elevated the visibility of identity theft and suggests that a company's data represents the majority of its corporate assets, we are tempted to ask ourselves just how stupid does an enterprise have to be to trust its data - on unencrypted back-up tapes, no less - to a third-party that is capable of losing the tapes? And what human being is not capable of such an error? Or worse.

If you think you have a good method for off-site storage for your backups and archives, this might be the time to remind yourself about a chain being as strong as its weakest link.

What is the weakest link in your "back-up chain"? It might be a truck driver, or some guy on the loading dock with his hands on a tape full of unencrypted data that could put your business out of business.

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