[Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU

Ed / Paul
To clarify, when tapes are offsite, they are stored in secure cases, locked
and sealed. The courier only get a case, with NO idea what is inside.

Only our inventory (which security retain) is known by certain key members.

Also, the cases are tracked electronically, so we know when they leave, when
they arrive. When we ask for case XXXX we know the contents within this, no
one else.

Thanks

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

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Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net



-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: 11 November 2006 01:17
To: Paul Keating
Cc: Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU


On 11/10/2006 7:12 AM, Paul Keating wrote:

> In my opinion, sending tapes off site with labels on them identifying,
> or hinting, in any way shape or form, what the data is on those tapes is 
> a security risk.....
>  
> eliminating as much info from being stored with the tapes is security 
> by
> obscurity, if you will.
>  
> If a tape was lost while offsite, would you rather it be an obscure
> barcode, or a label that says "Astrium HR-Finance"??

It doesn't matter if the tape is encrypted.  You're not shipping around 
unencrypted tapes are you?

We added a pair of Decru appliances earlier this year - they're sweet 
boxes and allow us to encrypt *everything*.  We no longer have the 
question if server x is encrypted whereas y isn't - we encrypt all of 
the data all of the time.

        .../Ed

-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org

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