Robobak Helps Companies Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

With global concerns over data privacy at an all-time high, a leading storage industry analyst today called on companies to adopt a stringent set of best practices to safeguard data against unauthorized access or loss. He noted that solutions from ROBOBAK, the leader in agentless data protection software designed for remote and branch offices, can be used as a foundation to help companies protect personally identifiable information (PII), spanning issues such as data integrity, data security, data protection, authentication, auditing, and data disposition.

Taneja Group analyst Eric Burgener noted that the risk of compromising PII has escalated as more industries take advantage of information technology (IT) by putting data online. “Compliance is not a product you buy, it is a combination of product, proper configuration, and appropriate processes,” Burgener writes. “Beware of products that support loopholes that cannot be configured around which can put compliance at risk, such as ‘emergency cryptography keys’ available from product vendors.”

Burgener cited multiple government and industry regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and more as drivers in the need to standardize best practices for protecting PII data. He said this is especially true for companies that must protect information from both a central location as well as branch and remote sites. This level of concern is being demonstrated worldwide; in the last month, governments from the Philippines and China to Gambia have discussed regulatory action needed to safeguard personal information.

Burgener cited ROBOBAK’s Version 8 Data Protection Suite software as possessing the needed capabilities to help companies meet regulatory requirements, noting that Version 8 supports AES-256 and 448-bit Blowfish encryption, and saying, “ROBOBAK’s end-to-end security model extends to restores as well, regardless of whether those are performed back to the original backup target or to an alternate target at a physically separate location.” 

Introduced earlier this year, ROBOBAK’s Version 8 Data Protection Suite software offers a full range of advanced features, enabling companies to adopt a unified approach in protecting data from remote and branch locations. With advantages such as agentless installation, ‘real-world’ continuous data protection (CDP), auto-discovery, source-based file de-duplication, and support for Microsoft Exchange 2007, SQL Server, Oracle and more, ROBOBAK has rapidly become the leader in agentless remote data protection software.

In his white paper, Burgener said that ROBOBAK software is compliant with PII protection best practices in key areas from the moment that data is created through its ultimate disposal. “Meeting compliance requirements requires a combination of product, configuration, and process definition and execution,” Burgener wrote. “Given a set of compliant processes, ROBOBAK can be configured to meet compliance requirements for all backup environments.”

To read Burgener’s report, Creating PII Compliant Solutions with ROBOBAK (registration required)