Re: Securing tape backup drive

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.).