Securing database backups
The situation
Your database contains confidential company and customer information. Following the spate of high-profile stories about companies losing unencrypted backup tapes, you have decided to improve the security of your company's backups.
Key challenges
- Encrypting the backups so that they are unreadable if they fall into the wrong hands.
- Finding a cost-effective solution.
How we can solve it
Use SQL Backup Pro to back up your databases, ensuring that you select the encryption option. SQL Backup Pro creates a 256-bit encrypted backup file.
Benefits of our solution
- Password-protects your backups, encrypting them using the Rijndael algorithm, so that you can move them around without fear of their being accessed.
- A low-cost solution that is easy to use.
- SQL Backup Pro offers a number of additional features, including: a dramatic reduction in the time needed to create and restore backups; compression of backups; and Timeline Monitoring™ to let you carefully monitor backup activities, past, present, and future.

