|
With appliance-based encryption a single key management infrastructure can be deployed across an array of storage devices. Including devices from different vendors and to hard drive based storage.
With device level encryption the encryption keys are proprietary to a specific device. This also creates vendor lock-in should you decide to switch to another vendor in the future.
Another point of consideration is cost. Today there are only two manufacturers that provide device level tape drives. And they charge a lot for their functionality!
The Channel Gateway enables you to select from all available Encryption appliances and Fibre Channel tape drives.
Not only are the proprietary encryption tape drives expensive but you may be forced to change out all of your media! With the Luminex solution, your existing media inventory can be reused!
Open Systems tape technology is advancing at a far more rapid pace than mainframe tape technology. And at the same time the ROI for investing in proprietary tape technology development diminishes with each new open systems advancement. For backup and recovery, and for long-term archives, industry-standard tape technologies such as LTO can already provide the best performance, reliability, and investment protection for your mainframe operations.
The Luminex Channel Gateway enables an easy, cost effective and seamless transition from proprietary to open systems tape and storage solutions for mainframe customers.
BACK TO TOP
It’s the old story: You can’t close the Barn Door once the cows are out. The same adage holds true for protecting sensitive corporate, personal and confidential records and data on backup and DR tapes. When a tape goes missing or worse yet, when a tape is stolen, there’s no going back Your data is exposed and your company is liable for that lost or stolen information.
With the Channel Gateway, you can encrypt mainframe tape data today! Your mainframe tape encryption solution is available today, right now, not next quarter or next year. NOW!
Don’t wait until your company is in the news, the time to protect your data is now.
BACK TO TOP
The Cost of Exposure
It's happening more frequently!
Regulations!
During the past several years, the news media has increasingly reported significant instances of massive losses or thefts of sensitive computer data, in some cases including hundreds of thousands of records.
Recent industry research* estimates that companies spend over $90 per exposed customer account on notification costs, credit reporting services and legal fees, while the estimated cost of encryption necessary to prevent such breaches is an insignificant fraction of the exposure cost.
*Gartner, Inc. Technologies, “Data Protection is Less Costly Than Data Breaches,” John Pescatore and Avivah Lita.
In addition, companies suffering data losses or thefts of non-encrypted customer data must deal with the loss of public trust, lost opportunity, bad publicity, decreased stock values and negative customer relations, which are difficult to quantify, but may actually far exceed the hard costs of each exposure.
Unless companies proactively protect their sensitive company and customer data, there is every indication that the problem of lost or stolen data and the dire consequences resulting from such problems will only increase.
This burden is further exacerbated by the increasingly broad web of regulations enacted to protect data security. Over two dozen states now have laws specifying that consumers and organizations must be immediately notified when their data is lost or stolen unless it is encrypted. Clearly, encryption is becoming the worldwide industry standard for securing sensitive company and customer data. Gartner, Inc. research recently predicted that by year end 2006, in most US jurisdictions, failure to encrypt credit card numbers stored in a data base will be considered legal negligence in civil cases of unauthorized disclosures. And failure to encrypt customer data could give rise under some of the legislation to liability for the officers and boards of directors for the affected companies.
The Channel Gateway takes the risk out of storing and distributing mainframe tape data by providing cost effective enterprise-class mainframe tape encryption.
BACK TO TOP
During the past several years, the news has increasingly reported significant instances of massive losses or thefts of sensitive computer data. Government entities such as the US Department of Transportation, US Department of Veterans Affairs, US Marine Corps, major universities such as UC Berkeley and the University of Texas, and leading companies such as Bank of America, American Insurance Group, Washington Mutual, ABN-Amro, Fidelity, Ameritrade and Marriott, have all reported embarrassing cases of lost or stolen customer data, in some cases including hundreds of thousands of records. Recent industry research indicated that companies spent over $90 per customer account lost, comprised of notification costs, credit reporting services and legal fees and estimated that the cost of encryption necessary to prevent such breaches was a fraction of such cost (as little as $6 per year per customer account). Gartner, Inc. Technologies, “Data Protection is Less Costly Than Data Breaches,” John Pescatore and Avivah Litan, September 16, 2005. In addition, companies suffering data losses or thefts of non-encrypted customer data must deal with the bad publicity, decreased stock values and negative customer relations (including lost customers), which are largely non-quantifiable. Unless companies proactively protect their sensitive company and customer data, there is every indication that the problem of lost or stolen data and the dire consequences resulting from such problems will only increase.
BACK TO TOP
In response to the increasing reports in the news of data security breaches, international, federal and state governments have responded by enacting a increasingly broad web of regulations to protect data security, including the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Billey Act (GLBA), Payment Card Industry Act (PCI), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, California SB 1386, DREC (the European Privacy Directive), among many others. Over two dozen states now have laws specifying that consumers and organizations must be immediately notified when their data is lost or stolen if it is encrypted. Clearly, encryption is becoming the worldwide industry standard for securing sensitive company and customer data. Gartner, Inc. research recently predicted that by year end 2006, in most US jurisdictions, failure to encrypt credit card numbers stored in a data base will be considered legal negligence in civil cases of unauthorized disclosures. And failure to encrypt customer data could give rise under some of the legislation to liability for the officers and boards of directors for the affected companies.
BACK TO TOP
The Channel Gateway enables the ability to use a single key management process and infrastructure for all the tapes, regardless of the host creating the tapes. With a single, universal encryption and key management solution across multi-vendor and multi-device environments, for both today’s and tomorrow’s infrastructures, your key management is streamlined and your data is secure.
BACK TO TOP
Unlike host-based mainframe encryption solutions, the Channel Gateway requires NO extra mainframe MIPS.
BACK TO TOP
To address the MIPS consumption of host-based mainframe encryption, co-processors have been introduced to offload the encryption operations. While a co-processor can be used to address much of the MIPS consumption, it does not address the process time it takes to encrypt data. It is common that a given mainframe backup job can take 3x to 5x longer when encrypting the data on the host using an encryption co-processor. It is simply impractical for most businesses to increase their existing backup windows to this extent.
The Channel Gateway requires NO increases in the mainframe backup window.
BACK TO TOP
How valuable is your existing tape media infrastructure? New tape drives from leading tape storage vendors promise encryption capabilities will be available on the tape drive itself. Will this tape drive read or write any of the existing media in your library, backup inventory, or off-site archive? Does your disaster recovery location have the infrastructure in place for the new drives, media, and even libraries? How will you encrypt data to be sent to a location without these tape drives? Are you ready for a forklift upgrade?
The Channel Gateway requires NO changes to your current media inventory and supports tape drives from the leading vendors that are compatible with your current library and media infrastructure. Existing mainframe-attached tape drives are available, certified, and supported by your current vendor in existing libraries using FC/SCSI interfaces with no changes to the tape drive performance, reliability, or media compatibility.
In addition, for those customers interested in creating a common drive and media infrastructure with their open-systems storage networks, they can do so leveraging industry-standard drives and media such as LTO. And the Channel Gateway is designed specifically for distributing mainframe data transparently and securely on the most common media format available, CD and DVD.
BACK TO TOP
|
