And a breach is important for a museum, more than like you have information about your contributors, endowements, etc. I'm sure some donors prefer to keep their gifts secret until a time of their choosing. You probably have account numbers to your endowment accounts, let alone your daily operating bank accounts. Social security numbers for employees in the payroll package?
Need to stop this practice immediately and assess what information a loss of a unencrypted backup tape would expose. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > Should he really be taking the data home? That might be opening up a > different can of worms (the likelihood of his copy of the data getting lost > is significantly greater than of all your machines blowing up) > > If he's so concerned, and you don't want to pay for services like Iron > Mountain (or their less expensive alternatives), then buy a tape drive for > him and make copies of the tapes -- encrypted copies. > > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker> > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Holstrom, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have been backing up all our data to tape drives. A vice president of >> the Museum likes to take a copy home regularly in case our machines blow >> up... >> >> But now we have nearly two terabytes of data. Tape drives go up to 1.7 >> T's, but I can only find libraries going higher. >> >> What other options do I have, so the VP can still take home a copy of the >> data? >> >> Extra HDs take so much time. >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
