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	January 17, 2006 Library-Based Tape Encryption Starts In 2006 by Galen Schreck with Simon Yates, Thomas Powell

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Executive Summary

Reports of lost tapes and customer data seem to surface monthly. Marriott International now joins Bank of America, Citigroup, and DSW as one of the latest firms to lose confidential data. But the need to encrypt tape-based data is perplexing. On the one hand, firms risk losing control over confidential business records, while on the other hand, most alternatives bring new risks of their own. These risks include reducing server performance with host-side encryption and new appliance-based technologies, not to mention the potential for lost encryption keys and data. Vendors are hoping to address customers' concerns by putting security into tape libraries or drives, which does away with application overhead and may only require an upgrade to existing gear. The only catch is that today's library-based encryption functions are completely invisible to storage software like tape backup tools. As a result, all key management and other security functions fall to the library vendors.

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