>I wouldn't encrypt data within a datacenter. The only data that gets >encrypted around here is data that goes out the door. Internal tapes are >not encrypted.
>If one level of backup are in your automated tape library, in a data center >with card-key access in a building with armed guards on all entrances who >inspect packages coming in AND going out, then I don't think you need to >encrypt that data. Its too easy for one of those 'secure' tapes to walk out the door with a disgruntled employee. And when the audit turns up a tape missing - its not going to care how or where it went - only that its missing and not encrypted. More than once I've read notices from companies announcing breaches where they state that they are '99% sure its in a landfill, but...'. And while that may be true and the data is more than likely safe, the damage to the reputation is already done, and the cost to notify is real. For my money, if it >can< be carried out, its going to be encrypted. Jeffrey Deaver, Engineer Systems Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] 651-665-4231(v) 651-610-7670(p) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
