The Storage Encryption Solutions Company

DISUK is a global provider of data encryption appliances for removable storage. The Paranoia family was launched in 1996 and has been used to successfully protect data for financial, insurance and military customers around the globe.

Legislation:

A major point-of-pain for organisations holding data is the European-wide Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament concerning the privacy and communications of data without its authorised or lawful processing. The consequences of breaching this Directive range from fines to prosecution on counts of negligence.

Specific to the UK is the Data Protection Act which concisely lists the security of data as one of it's eight principles.

In the US and also affecting US owned companies outside the US there are a number of regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that are making them aware of the importance of complete data security. Specific states are also bringing in more specific targeted regulations lead by California with SB1366 designed to protect their residences personal identity.

PCI Compliance. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards outlines the steps required for companies to ensure compliance with these regulations if they handling credit and debit cards from Visa or Mastercard.

NEWS

If you care about the security of your sensitive or confidential data on tape then there is a Paranoia storage encryption product to suit your environment, whatever the platform, operating system or backup software.

Data Losses

We are continuing to see an increasing number of disclosures of data losses being announced.
Some companies which have admitted losing tapes or having them stolen are named below..

Bank of America.................. Ameritrade .............Time Warner ................CitiFinancial. . . . . . . . CityNational Bank. . . . . . Children's Health Council. . . . . . ABM AMRO. . . . . IBM . . . . . . . I.R.S. . . . . . . . . Blue Cross Blue Shield. . . . . . . . . Cablevision . . . . . . NelNet . . . . . . . . . Marriott International . . . . . . . . . Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. . . . . . . . . Johns Hopkins Hospital . . . . . . .

Don't let your organisation join the list!

IBM lose personal data on tape!

UK Government backed Independent Living Funds loses data on tape!

DOWNLOAD THROUGPUT CALCULATOR

Need to know what speeds you are getting from your drives? This free tools allows you to find out the simple way.

Data is a valuable asset. Conventional wisdom of storage data security was to simply back up a copy of all your data to tape for security. This only gave the user availability of the data in the event of a disaster. What is also needed is a method to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of this data as well! The Paranoia family of tape encryption products have been ensuring users data is able to be restored quickly and easily since 1997 whilst still keeping the data secure from non authorised users.

Tape Encryption Appliances

Paranoia - The simple to use, proven, flexible and straightforward solution to removable media data protection.

New PARASOFT GUI avaiiable

SafeTape - Complete secure tape subsystems based on the proven Paranoia2 electronics and industry standard drives to encrypt your data.

SCSI Converters

To enable connection of Legacy products DISUK have a field proven range of SCSI converters available.

Where should storage security live?

We are often asked just where the encrypting of data going to tape or removable discs should reside. A look back at the evolution of fibre channel and SAN's shows that the intelligence needed to be moved into the abstraction layer, in this case the switches, rather than as software on the host system or as part of the storage devices themselves.

With tape storage encryption this is best served in the abstraction layer by use of an encryption appliance.
No need to move to a new high speed, high capacity drive such as the IBM LTO-4 just to get encryption when you can seamlessly add encryption to your existing environment with no disruption, no new media and no new software.

DISUK is a global provider of data encryption appliances for removable storage. The Paranoia family was launched in 1996 and has been used to successfully protect data for financial, insurance and military customers around the globe.		Legislation: A major point-of-pain for organisations holding data is the European-wide Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament concerning the privacy and communications of data without its authorised or lawful processing. The consequences of breaching this Directive range from fines to prosecution on counts of negligence. Specific to the UK is the Data Protection Act which concisely lists the security of data as one of it's eight principles. In the US and also affecting US owned companies outside the US there are a number of regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that are making them aware of the importance of complete data security. Specific states are also bringing in more specific targeted regulations lead by California with SB1366 designed to protect their residences personal identity. PCI Compliance. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards outlines the steps required for companies to ensure compliance with these regulations if they handling credit and debit cards from Visa or Mastercard.
NEWS If you care about the security of your sensitive or confidential data on tape then there is a Paranoia storage encryption product to suit your environment, whatever the platform, operating system or backup software. Data Losses We are continuing to see an increasing number of disclosures of data losses being announced. Some companies which have admitted losing tapes or having them stolen are named below.. Bank of America.................. Ameritrade .............Time Warner ................CitiFinancial. . . . . . . . CityNational Bank. . . . . . Children's Health Council. . . . . . ABM AMRO. . . . . IBM . . . . . . . I.R.S. . . . . . . . . Blue Cross Blue Shield. . . . . . . . . Cablevision . . . . . . NelNet . . . . . . . . . Marriott International . . . . . . . . . Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. . . . . . . . . Johns Hopkins Hospital . . . . . . . Don't let your organisation join the list! IBM lose personal data on tape! UK Government backed Independent Living Funds loses data on tape! DOWNLOAD THROUGPUT CALCULATOR Need to know what speeds you are getting from your drives? This free tools allows you to find out the simple way. Data is a valuable asset. Conventional wisdom of storage data security was to simply back up a copy of all your data to tape for security. This only gave the user availability of the data in the event of a disaster. What is also needed is a method to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of this data as well! The Paranoia family of tape encryption products have been ensuring users data is able to be restored quickly and easily since 1997 whilst still keeping the data secure from non authorised users.	Tape Encryption Appliances Paranoia - The simple to use, proven, flexible and straightforward solution to removable media data protection. New PARASOFT GUI avaiiable SafeTape - Complete secure tape subsystems based on the proven Paranoia2 electronics and industry standard drives to encrypt your data. SCSI Converters To enable connection of Legacy products DISUK have a field proven range of SCSI converters available.

	Where should storage security live? We are often asked just where the encrypting of data going to tape or removable discs should reside. A look back at the evolution of fibre channel and SAN's shows that the intelligence needed to be moved into the abstraction layer, in this case the switches, rather than as software on the host system or as part of the storage devices themselves.	With tape storage encryption this is best served in the abstraction layer by use of an encryption appliance. No need to move to a new high speed, high capacity drive such as the IBM LTO-4 just to get encryption when you can seamlessly add encryption to your existing environment with no disruption, no new media and no new software.