Six Enterprise Solutions to Secure Data Backups

Data backup security is a large piece of the enterprise data storage puzzle. New technologies and trends from tape to cloud has changed how the enterprise manages data backup, encryption and secure data destruction. This this in-depth report, Search Storage discusses six ways to make your data more secure.

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"Industry experts, vendors and storage administrators agree that in a secure data backup strategy, widespread encryption adoption all comes down to encryption key management. A good encryption key management system would simplify the process of generating, rotating, backing up and securing keys required to decrypt data after it is encrypted. Anybody with access to encryption keys also has access to all encrypted data.

"With key management commonly cited as the biggest problem for encryption, there is a lot riding on the work of standards groups such as the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). OASIS is working on a standard for interoperability between key management systems called the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)."

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