Protecting your Data

By Deni Connor, NetworkWorld.com, 12/15/05

Protecting data in-flight - traveling across the network - has been handled with encryption protocols such as IPSec, SSL and SSH. Until now, many customers considered that sufficient for protecting their data.

That is until Bank of America and Ameritrade reported that they had lost backup tapes. Now, there is a proposed IEEE standard for encrypting data at rest on disk and tape - P1619, which proposes encryption modes specifically designed for disk and tape. And there will be a story on it in Network World on Monday, both online at networkworld.com and in print.

Back to Storage Notes

Comments

Post a comment

Name:


E-mail address:


URL:


Comments:


Remember info?