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The ParanoiaFF is part of the second generation of the Paranoia2 tape encryption appliances family. It incorporates fibre channel host and tape interfaces to allow it to be used in the newer SAN configurations where Fibre Channel tape drives are being utilised.
The ParanoiaFF is a hardware tape encryption appliance designed to work with all server and tape technologies currently available, The ParanoiaFF utilises a unique encryption technique by using two interlaced 3DES encryption engines and pre-compression to ensure that the amount of data backed up does not increase in size as it is written to tape. The ParanoiaFF is the second generation of the Paranoia product. It has a Fibre interface for both the host and tape drive.
ParanoiaFF supports stand alone tapes, tape libraries and tape silos. It is fully transparent to the host and can even pass diagnostic commands and information between the host and drives.

ParanoiaFF can be used in full fabric, point to point and arbitrated loop infrastructures making it an affordable and easily configured solution for data storage encryption, for use in both archive and backup systems. The unit automatically detects the WWN of the connected tape drive and sets the ParanoiaFF published WWN to the same to ensure a smooth a straightforward integration into the current environment.

The optional network connection allows for remote management, monitoring and auditing of the unit. When used with the optional iCard and iSecure SmartCard software the key and password management can be securely controlled from a central location.

ParanoiaFF is fully compatible with the Paranoia2 SCSI units and the SafeTape range of secure tape drives for greater flexibility.

The ParanoiaFF offers a simple and straightforward means of adding removable storage security to existing tape and optical discs units without the need for changes in the operating system, backup software or procedures. With minimum downtime to install and no re-training of staff needed; the ParanoiaFF allows companies to meet the requirements of compliance regulations in the easiest way.

The problems that need to be solved by any removable storage encryption products are the same. The device must ensure that the information remains confidential and is only available to those who are authorised, the integrity of the data must be confirmed, the data must be easily available when required by those authorised people and it must be simple to understand and utilise, ParanoiaFF is designed to ensure all of this.

ParanoiaFF is a purpose designed unit and does not rely on standard OS such as Linux or Windows to operate so is not susceptible to viruses or hacking attacks.

ParanoiaFF is designed to fit into your environment, there will be no reason for you to change your IT systems or procedures. Easy to use and with simple system integration, means ParanoiaFF is perfect in a disaster recovery situation where fast retrieval of data is of paramount importance.

There are numerous pieces of legislation which ParanoiaFF can help you abide by. This legislation includes: Sarbanes Oxley Act, California Senate Bill 1386 (SB 1386), Database Protection Act , the Gramm Leach Billey Act (GLBA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard compliance or simply to meet the needs of good company business governance, then ParanoiaFF is there to meet these needs.

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