This disc array will hold about 45 songs, or 4000 pages of scanned business
documents. Almost everyone in the business world has a jump drive the
size of a stick of juicy fruit gum that holds 5-50 times more information than
this relic. (And cost 1/100th of what this cost 40 years ago.)
With these advancements come some huge responsibilities. A 4
gigabyte thumb drive can now be loaded with the equivalent of 8 filing cabinets
full of scans of sensitive information.
Please take care to encrypt the information you place on removable storage
media. I recommend using TrueCrypt. It's fast and it's
free. Once encrypted, your files will be nearly impenetrable, thereby
protecting you and your clients.
This doesn't only apply to thumb drives. We also recommend that
our customers encrypt the backup tapes they send to offsite storage to protect against
disaster.
Almost daily we read about companies that lose backup tapes or sets of
tapes and are fined for the breach of confidentiality. TrueCrypt saves
you from that.
Better yet, backup online.
Don’t make the news with a data breach.
Scott Hambrick
918-664-6164