On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Ryan wrote: > On 5/22/06, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > > Some businesses and organizations (banks and government agencies, for > > example) have some insane standards on drive destructions. > > Now, if only those same institutions had good procedures in place for > shipping backup tapes around and disclosing data theft in a timely > manner, that would be nice. The good ones don't need to disclose data theft - they encrypt the tapes so if the tape goes missing, it won't do anybody any good. We're starting to see Decru/NetApp and Neoscale tape encryption devices pop up. For example, a large local bank has appliances to encrypt their tapes. The more companies that have these, the safer we'll be (and no, I don't have any relationships with the appliance vendors). -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program