Security

SaveMyData (SMD) backup software uses a combination of Blowfish encryption and SSL secure data transmission to ensure the safety of your data. When the Backup Client has to transfer data to the SMD storage platform, it connects using a secure SSL (1024 bit RSA key exchange, 128 bit RCA stream cipher and SHA-1 integrity checking) connection to transfer the data. Signed SSL certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are used to verify server integrity. Data is stored using 448-bit Blowfish encryption to encode the data on the Server.

This is considerably greater than the encryption used for Internet banking and online credit card transactions.

Your encryption key is seen as a passphrase by the SMD Storage Platform. A random encryption key is automatically generated when any account is created and this random key (and not the passphrase specified by you) is used to encrypt your files. The encryption key is protected by the passphrase (your encryption key) and without this

passphrase you cannot decode the actual encryption key. When you change the encryption key in the Backup Client, the actual key is decrypted and re-encrypted with the new passphrase. The data is never touched. All data since the initial backup is encrypted with the same random encryption key even when the passphrase is changed. If you change your encryption key, you do not have to remember the previous encryption keys for future restores – the Backup Client will be able to retrieve the data from the Storage Platform.

Your encryption key is not stored anywhere on the Storage Platform, and is only known to you. If you forget this encryption key, it will render your data unrecoverable.

Security standards and techniques employed by Attix5 Backup Professional are audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers to ensure that sensitive corporate data remains safe from prying eyes when transferred over the Internet or stored on a server. Blowfish is an encryption algorithm. It is a symmetric block cipher, which uses a variable-length key from 32 bits to 448 bits. Backup Professional uses the maximum strength 448-bit key.

The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a commonly used protocol for managing the security of data transmission. SSL uses the public-and-private key encryption system from RSA, which also includes the use of a digital certificate.

Reliability

Sophisticated scheduling and advanced data filtering are well and good but the most important feature of any backup system is its ability to get the data through. Our software was designed from the ground up to ensure that users comply with policy. A robust JAVA client works transparently on the user device in accordance with administrator enforced settings, making use of intuitive error trapping and fault recovery techniques to ensure that data is comprehensively protected. Similarly, Attix5 (our software developer) employs audited best practice development and quality management methodologies to produce only best-of-breed products.

Storage

The SaveMyData Online Backup Storage Platforms are fully mirrored and hosted using our own secure hosting facilities, which combine our secure data centre facilities and fully resilient network infrastructure.