Discerning the six myths about movable storage

Is the data on your laptop or movable media secure? If you answered “Yes!”, you may be buying into one or more of these myths:  

1) Tapes are obsolete.
2) Protecting tapes and laptops is a job for technical people.
3) Losing a tape is primarily a security problem.
4) There are no technology solutions; it’s all about tight controls.
5) Encryption is a silver bullet.
6) If you protect your tapes and laptops, you can feel secure.

Read the full article from InfoWorld.

How do you go about safeguarding your movable media? What other myths have you heard about? Drop us a line.

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2 Responses to “Discerning the six myths about movable storage”

  1. SSD for IP Surveillance? Stay Tuned. « Dynamic Network Factory Blog Says:
    March 3, 2009 at 10:27 am | Reply

    [...] On an up note, these disks can be used as part of tiered storage  — aka different classes of disk for different purposes.  In a single system you might combine high performance disks for same day recordings:  to record the data quickly, and make it easy and fast to review the day’s footage.  Then offload the data to slower, cheaper disks for a longer term archive.  And after a few months move the footage to storage facilities, and turn off the live system, to save energy and reduce storage requirements by using tape.  (Learn about using tape for movable storage) [...]

  2. Anika Cooper Says:
    February 1, 2010 at 4:53 pm | Reply

    There is apparently a lot for me to study outside of my books. Thanks for the wonderful read,

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