So! What happens if there is a serious fire in the admin building .. such that the floors collapse down and the safe ends up on the lowest floor, covered in hot rubble.
How soon will you be able to get the tapes from the safe? And - how many days (in heated conditions) is the safe rated for the tape media? JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "MARC SIMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 9:55 PM Subject: Re: The "simple" truth about security Where I work (Prince George's Community College) my IT department has a local off-site storage safe that's 25 cubic FT 500 LBS and placed on the first floor of the administrative building. Speaking of which I am responsible for the securing and inventory of the entire backup of production tapes and software for the entire college. (Yes this includes all employee and student records if you were wondering). Half of these tapes are mostly of the IBM 3490E variety and the other half are SDLT IV 420s which comprise the entire SAN/LAN backup. Once a week I place 20 IBM 3490E tapes in a 3490E plastic clam-shell carry case and secure them in the safe and daily backups along with them. For security sake I am the only person who's responsible for securing them. Only I and the manager have the combo to the safe in case I am off on vacation. I know where and which tapes hold the data and for me and my IT department this system works best for us. This way if disaster should strike we can have instant access to the backups within only 250 FT walking distance. Marc Sims Technician I Technology Services Prince George's Community College 301 Largo Rd. Largo, MD 20774-2199 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/19/05 5:39 PM >>> ...which is why I object to collection of data on everyone, by everyone... It all sounds so simple. You save your data to a tape cartridge. When you have enough cartridges, you put them in a box and send them off to be stored. And yet, we can't seem to go a week without some company reporting another -- usually boneheaded -- data loss. This time it's Time Warner wearing the dunce cap: The media giant lost 40 tapes with personal information on about 600,000 current and former employees as the tapes were in transit to a storage facility. [more] http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/13/20OPsecadvise_1.html Rich -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
