I'll agree with you that encrypting everything is probably a waste of resources but who decides what needs encrypting. We've got outside regulators that insist credit card numbers will have to be encrypted in ALL cases but who knows where it resides? My full volume dumps and HSM data "may" have it sitting in a vault and that is not acceptable to them. They want this done "yesterday" and who has time to research where it all is. Naturally this leads to the "BIG BANG" theory of just encrypt everything. Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Mattson Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Encrypting tape drives... anyone considering field encryption? Encrypting everything which goes out of the data center is expensive and/or uses lots of resources (same thing really), takes time, and complicates your disaster recovery. In addition none of these "encrypt all tape" solutions deals with threats inside the company, either employees, or hackers. So what's a better solution? <SNIP> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
