Re: Securing tape backup drive

[Luis Rodriguez <luis.rodriguez2@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,

In fact, we were told that the main reason in offering the software encryption 
solution was in order to preserve current hardware investments. 

That said, there are some third-party options that provide tape encryption 
(Robot/Save comes to mind, I suppose there should be others).

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez


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message: 8
date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:47:36 -0500
from: "Jones, John \(US\)" 
subject: RE: Securing tape backup drive

My $25K tape libraries - I have two - are less than three years old.
I'm not about to toss them for new hardware.  I may be able to make a
case, though, to replace the tape IOA with one that does encryption as
long as it wasn't too expensive ($3K or less).

Or, as you noted, an LPP that adds encryption would be another option.
In some ways it'd be better as then save file processing and other
non-physical tape saves (virtual tape) could benefit.  I could stomach a
small cost for it but should IBM provide encryption in the OS it really
should be free.

A third option, I suppose, would be to run the data through the crypto
card before writing to tape (or save file, etc.).