Re: Security of Volumes

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:34 AM 3/9/98 -0500, O'Connor, Peter H. wrote:
>I have had a request from a client to add security to media volumes.  For
>example,  John can't use volume 123456.  He would get a NOT AUTHORIZED to
>this volume.    This would mean that you could do with a media volume that
>you can do with an object of the 400.  The idea is to restrict certain
>users to confidential data on volumes.  
>I would like to know what  the 400 community thinks  of this and if has any
>value.

Sounds to me like the data on the media volume should be encrypted.

I've never heard of a way to secure backup / archive media in such a way
that it was inaccessable in some way.

Just my $.02

david

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