My how far business computer backup has come!
Posted by Scott Hambrick on Wed, Mar 24, 2010 @ 09:04 AM
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