CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTS
ensure that sensitive information is kept safe and secure is paramount .
Because information stored on tape is transferred to an analog format , which is then physically placed in a vault or storage room , the air gap it creates makes for an attractive level of security in an age when an attack on a third party partner can lay millions of sensitive records bare - just look at the ongoing fallout from the Solar Winds breach .
The physical tapes themselves are thoroughly encrypted . “ You can imagine how critical it is to have really strong security and encryption technology on something that someone can pick up and walk away with ,” says Walls . “ IBM - more than 20 years ago now - was the first company to create and market encryption and compression for tape . We ' ve really led the way in terms of standards and security practices for the medium .”
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