INNOVATION Data Processing announces support for FDR/UPSTREAM Encryption
Description:
Corporate business continuance and business data protection plans must expand to meet current Personal Identity Protection
(PIP) and Security Breach Notification (SBN) legislation that all but make it illegal for companies to send unencrypted
backup tapes off site.
INNOVATION is ready to assist with FDR/UPSTREAM, an extension to its FDR/UPSTREAM family of business data protection
and business continuance solutions that will lower and possibly even eliminate the liability PIP and Security Breach
Notification legislation imposes.
FDR/UPSTREAM meets privacy protection compliance requirements, with
encryption/ decryption of FDR/UPSTREAM vaulted copies of distributed backups of Windows/Novell/UNIX/LINUX data.
FDR/Upstream V3.5.0 now incorporates components of the Innovation Data Processing FDRCRYPT product as an additional-cost
add-on, to allow encryption of secondary copies of backup datasets intended for offsite transport and storage. These
secondary backup dataset copies are created using the Upstream VAULT facility. You may choose among five encryption
algorithms driven by an encryption key. This encryption key may be user-specified or randomly generated for each
backup, allowing a unique encryption key for each.
In order to restore the data from one of these encrypted backup datasets, you must have the encryption key available
that was used during the Upstream VAULT operation. The FDRCRYPT component stores the encryption keys used for each
VAULT copy in a special key file on disk. For off-site restores, such as a disaster recovery, this key file must be
securely transported to the restore site. Alternatively, the user can specify the keys during the restore process.
The Upstream FDRCRYPT component also supports an optional master key, which is used to create an encrypted copy of
the actual key used to encrypt the data. This encrypted key is then saved on the backup dataset. The master key can
then be used to decrypt any “copy-2” backup created by the VAULT process, in the event the actual keys or the key file
is not available.
Twenty-three states (Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana,
Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
Tennessee, Texas, and Washington) currently have PIP/SBN legislation.
Innovation with this release once again demonstrates its superiority in product design and implementation. With
a worldwide customer base and over 34 years experience in backup, restore, hierarchical storage management and
disaster recovery, Innovation is internationally recognized for Non disruptive backups and its inventiveness in
this market segment. Further information about Innovation, its products and services, can be obtained from the
Innovation home page at http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com or e-mail us at
sales@fdrinnovation.com
