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Internal Privacy
With the increasing use of large shared tape libraries and silos within a company there is a chance this can impact on internal security. If either by mistake or intentionally a tape 'belonging' to another part of the company is loaded in the wrong drive, there is the chance it could read by the wrong person and used incorrectly.
Human Resources information released in this way could lead to insecurity in the work force. It may be that it simply makes some workers feel they are being undervalued in respect to the salaries they can now see the management are receiving, or that their personal information is freely available.
By allowing personal data to be read by unauthorised staff you may also be breaking statutory regulations such as the Data Protection Act. The possibilities of this problem could be far reaching and impact on the company’s value. Information being released into the public domain before the company planned, and not in a structured way, has already been seen to have a dramatic impact on the stock value of several companies.
Whatever the reason to ensure internal privacy of data recorded onto tape there is a Paranoia solution to meet the need, and all without any extra system overhead, or slowing of data backup or restore.
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