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.

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