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Tape Encryption
Paranoia is a family of wire-speed hardware encryption appliances designed to encrypt data written to removable storage media. Each product within the Paranoia family is built to integrate seamlessly into the existing storage environment and requires no additional software or operating system patches to be loaded onto the host system.
DISUK - Paranoia2
The Paranoia2 is the first product of the second generation family of the products in the range. It has a SCSI interface for both host and tape drive available as either LVD or HVD types.The most dramatic change between the original Paranoia range and the new Paranoia2 series has been the addition of pre-compression before encryption. This feature enables the unit to maintain or often exceed the transfer rates achieved prior to installation, even when writing or reading in dual interlaced 3DES mode!
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The Paranoia2 provides on the fly data encryption or decryption to the 3DES standards via a two-part key. The first of these is via a unique secure silicon chip installed when the unit is manufactured, the other is a firmware key that is decided and installed by the end user. Both parts of this unique key must be present for the encryption / decryption to take place.
How does it Work?
The Paranoia2 consists of two separate elements in one unit.
The main element is the encryption section and sits on the SCSI bus between the host computer and the backup tape device. When properly installed, it takes on the SCSI ID of the target tape drive and presents this ID to the host computer. Paranoia passes through all inquiry information and therefore appears transparent to the host computer. At the heart of the encryption section lies a dedicated hardware encryption and decryption engine which, depending on the level of security required, allows data to pass through the encryption engines, one or three times depending on the level of security (DES or 3 DES).
The second section is a system monitor, which provides information relating to the climatic environment of the complete Paranoia system as well as monitoring the power supplies and other critical functions not directly involved in the encryption process.
DISUK - Safe Tape
The ZT1000 range of secure backup units offer a complete secure tape backup solution in a single enclosure to meet the requirements of regulatory rules in the financial, medical, research and similar areas of commercial, industrial and government users.
ZT1000 - "Powered by Paranoia
Encrypted using a unique dual interlaced 3DES2 mode data backed up onto on a ZT1000 unit can only be read by another Paranoia based unit with the correct user and hardware key. This guarantees the integrity and confidentiality of your sensitive data.To ensure that the secured backup solution will provide fast through put and high capacity. The ZT1000 units have inbuilt pre compression and an internal dual channel architecture with adaptive data caching. Select the ZT1000 unit that meets your capacity requirements. ZT1000 is supported by all the major backup Software vendors as well as most legacy backup applications. The ZT1000 range of tape encryption products have been deployed throughout Europe and North America since 1997.
Why encrypt data on tape?
Users are well protected against external intrusion by a large number of specialist appliances and software; internal intrusion is defended against by access control, audit systems and by only giving people access to information they need. To ensure the data can be recovered in the event of a disaster, system malfunction or even human error, data needs to be backed up and stored safely.Most users, use tape as the media of choice. Once written to tape however the data is completely unprotected; with no access control, passwords or audit trail. To ensure that backup data cannot be accessed or modified when using the ZT1000 range uses 3DES2 hardware encryption ensures that it will remain secure, and integrity is assured.
ZT1000 LTO
The ZT1000 LTO unit is available with either an LTO, AIT or SDLT drives, and comes in a desk top enclosure complete with integral power supply. A front panel LCD status display indicates the operation being performed as well as showing the amount and speed of data that has been backed up.
Features LTO2
