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Secure Vaulting
Information under threat! When a company designs a strategy for backup it usually is doing it for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery reasons. The main concern is to ensure all the company's information (often its most valuable single asset) is copied and taken to a safe place. In such cases a 'safe place' is seen as somewhere that will be unaffected by a disaster, such as flood, fire, aircraft crash, etc.
The data is often sent to a company who specialise in the secure storage of data. It is also possible that these same vaulting sites are a DR site so you can also recover and use the data on their site.
The problem faced by some companies is the issue of information security. If you send your tapes to another company can you be sure they will follow the same level of security as you will on your own site?
Using tape encryption means you can be sure there is no way anyone is copying, or seeing your data at the off site storage facility.
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