Security of Personal Data

"Appropriate security measures shall be taken against unauthorised access to, or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of the data, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing"

The security of personal information is all-important. It will be more significant in some situations than in others, depending on such matters as confidentiality and sensitivity. High standards of security are, nevertheless, essential for all personal information. Both "data controllers" and "data processors" must meet the requirement to keep data secure.

• Data is encrypted before it leaves your network.
• Data is transmitted using 256-Bit AES Encryption and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technologies.
• Your data is stored in encrypted format in our Dublin data centre
• Facility is secure and requires photo id and security clearance to access
• Data access is logged and time stamped for auditing purposes
• Data is stored in an encrypted non writeable format

http://www.dataprivacy.ie/ for further information

BackupVault - "Secure, Robust, Reliable"

1. Secure 256-bit SSL communication

All communications between the BackupVault Backup Server and your computer are transported in a 256-bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) channel. Although all your backup files travel through a public network (internet), eavesdroppers have no knowledge of what has been exchanged.

2. Backup are securely encrypted

All of your files are first zipped and encrypted with a defined encrypting key before they are sent to the BackupVault backup server. To all people but you, your files stored on the BackupVault backup server are no more than some garbage files with random content.

3. We don't keep your encrypting key

The encryption key used to encrypt your files resides only on your computer and is known only to you. It is never transmitted anywhere across the network. If this key is lost, all backup files can never be recovered.

Reminder : Please make sure you write down your encryption key in a safe place so that it will never be lost or forgotten. Otherwise, you will never be able to recover your backup files.

4. Best encryption algorithm is used

Currently, the algorithm that we are useing to encrypt files is 256-bit Twofish. It is one of the five Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) finalists chosen by National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST). It is subject to frequent public reviews, however no known successful attack against this algorithm has been reported.

5. Require 8.77 x 1017 years to crack 256-bit encryption

A 256-bit key size has 2128 or around 3.4 x 1038 possible combination. Even if you have the world best super computer, ASCI White, SP Power3 375 MHz manufactured by IBM as of November 2000, it would take 8.77 x 1017 years to test all combinations. Assuming you have the super computer, ASCI White, SP Power3 375 MHz has 8192 processors which totals a capability of 12.3 teraflops (trillions of operations/second), available to you. Also it just needs one computer operation to test a possible combination (which is already faster than what it can do). To use brute force attack (checking all combinations) on this encryption algorithm. It would take:

i.e. 876530835323573935 years or 8.77 x 1017 years

to successfully try all combinations. Let alone ASCI White cannot process as fast as what is described here. You can be sure that your data stored on our server is 100% secured.

6. Restrict access to data by IP addresses

You can also restrict access to your backup files from the set of IP addresses you define. If someone tries to access your data from an IP address not on your defined list, their access will be denied. This additional security ensures backup files are not open to all locations, even if username and password are known.