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BlueScale
Encryption
Effortlessly add
encryption to your backup strategy
 Protecting
data stored to tape and other mobile media is increasingly important,
as many organizations have recently discovered when lost tapes made
unwanted headlines—and headaches—for companies
across the US and around the world. If those companies had encrypted
their tapes, then the data would have been considered absolutely
secure—without the key, the data cannot be accessed. So,
encryption is the logical solution—but how can you implement
encryption without breaking your budget or your network? You now have a
choice that is both affordable and straightforward: Spectra Logic
BlueScale Encryption, now available in the Spectra T50, Spectra T120, the Spectra "Mid-range" family (T200, T380 and T680)
and Spectra
T950 libraries.
Spectra Logic’s BlueScale environment now supports
hardware-based encryption. BlueScale Encryption is the only truly
integrated encryption for data stored on tape and other removable
media. It lets you seamlessly and affordably add encryption to your
backup strategy – with no changes to backup policies and no
additional hardware or software. In a single step, you can encrypt and
back up data. Because encryption is hardware-based, it minimally
affects backup windows, and it doesn’t burden the network.
Managing encryption and the keys used to encrypt data is simple,
because it’s all handled through the library’s
graphic interface—on the web and on the front panel.
BlueScale Encryption Highlights:
- Use of the federally approved AES-256 encryption algorithm
– the most secure method of encrypting data, and considered
unbreakable by the US Government.
- A single point of management for both encryption and data
backup, along with the flexibility to manage it all from anywhere with
a Web-based Remote Library Controller (RLC), secure through the use of
SSL.
- Endura™ Key Management provides standard key
management features and extends them to include features designed
specifically for tape and other mobile media.
- BlueScale Encryption is vendor-agnostic,
platform-independent, and compliant with every major backup software
application.
- BlueScale Encryption works with all major media types,
including LTO, WORM-enabled LTO, and RXT SabreMedia.
- The Spectra Endura Decryption Utility (EDU) lets you
restore data without a Spectra library, using only the tape, a Linux
server, and the key. This lets users rapidly decrypt data following a
disaster or a long archival period.
- BlueScale Encryption Standard Edition provides a strong,
easy to use method of encrypting data using a single key on the
library, letting you add encryption without adding complexity.
- BlueScale Encryption Professional Edition suits customers
requiring the next step in encryption flexibility. By supporting
multiple keys on a library at a single time, additional security
features, and compression, customers can implement more customized data
encryption regimens. The compression also helps customers manage fewer
tapes and shorten backup windows.
BlueScale Encryption Editions
All data encrypted using BlueScale Encryption (Standard and
Professional Editions) is secured by the strongest available encryption
method, AES-256. However, you do have other choices in the level of
security you can implement in your data center; whether to implement
BlueScale Standard Edition or Professional Edition is simply your first
choice.
| Feature |
Standard Edition |
Professional Edition |
| Keys |
- Single encryption key
- Easier to manage and track since only one key allowed
at a time
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- Multiple simultaneous encryption keys
- More secure, with a key for each of multiple data sets
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| Encryption Login Passwords |
- Single encryption password
- Easier to manage since only one encryption password
to track
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- Choose either one encryption password or three
- More secure, with multiple users required to export
and import keys, etc.
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| Key Export and Import |
- Import and export functions require a single
password, so easier to manage
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- M of N shares to export/import keys
- More secure
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| Compression |
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- Available and can be switched on as an option
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| Compatibility between versions |
- Data encrypted using either version can be decrypted
by a library running the other version
Data encrypted and compressed by a library running Professional Edition
can be decrypted and decompressed by a library running Standard Edition.
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| Summary |
- Less secure, but less to manage
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- Fewer tapes through compression; also more secure,
but more to manage
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