Disaster Recovery Security Solutions

The topic of disaster recovery security is a broad one, covering data encryption, physical security of data backups, and other sub-topics.

Good disaster recovery security practices should be incorporated into you organization's security policies. For example, is a company employee's home an acceptable storage place for off-site backup storage tapes.

It's a tricky question. Having backups stored at an employee's home makes it easy to gain quick access to your data backups. At the same time, it's an inherent disaster recovery security risk -- what happens if a thief steals the backups? Precious data could fall into the hands of competitors or be used for illegal purposes.

Generally speaking, disaster recovery best practices do not involve storing data in crime-vulnerable locations. Backups should always be stored in a secure location.

To further protect your data, data encryption is highly recommended. For example, the disaster recovery solution we recommend to small business owners and mid-sized businesses encrypts data before transmitting between the NAS and the remote data storage sites.

Note that encryption has varying levels of security. Be sure to ask your disaster recovery providers what encryption algorithms they use.

Settle for nothing less than the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. This data security algorthim has never been broken and is currently considered the gold standard of encryption techniques and renders transmitted data immune to theft.

If security is top of mind in creating your disaster recover plan, you can be secure in knowing that you are well protected from any disaster because you have thoroughly evaluated disaster recovery security solutions and made security-centric decisions that are right for your business.

There are many aspect to disaster recovery. Security solutions and 
security issues must be top of mind when selecting a disaster recovery vendor.