Your Best Tape Backup Encryption Options

Following the highly publicized losses of backup tapes containing sensitive information about firms' customers, many organizations are examining their own policies and technology options for protecting data when it moves outside their corporate walls — such as backup tapes or tapes of customer information sent to business partners. Firms have three primary options for encrypting data before it goes out the door on tapes: 1) Turn on database encryption; 2) turn on tape backup encryption; or 3) install a storage encryption appliance.