"How does Save And Secure Online Backup protect my data from prying eyes?"

Encryption and Password Protection

Data security is essential! You need to protect data against outsiders and
against unauthorised internal access. Save And Secure Online Backup provides
security that far exceeds that provided by other backup mechanisms such
as floppy or tape.

Encryption converts data into an unreadable format to prevent
unauthorised viewing or access. Save And Secure Online Backup employs the
DES encryption cipher and can be configured to use 40-bit, 56-bit and
112-bit ‘strengths’.

Password Protection as data must be protected against access by
people who have gained unauthorised access to a PC. Whether a laptop
is stolen or a desktop PC is left unattended, you do not want anyone
with physical access to a PC to be able to restore data that was
previously backed up. Save And Secure Online Backup offers an additional
level of security via client password protection. This protection gives
you the flexibility to select a private account password (distinct from the
encryption key). This password must be entered to restore backed up
data. So, even if someone has unauthorised access to a user’s PC, they
cannot restore backed up data. If a PC is stolen or accessed by
unauthorised personnel, a full or partial restoration is impossible.

Preventing Unauthorised Access

Save And Secure Online Backup encrypts all data before it ever leaves your PC, so
that it travels over the network to the Secure Data Centres in an unreadable
format. It is safe from unauthorised viewing or access throughout both the
entire transmission process and the storage interval. Even if unauthorised
personnel access transmissions or storage, no intelligible data can be
retrieved.

Removing the Hacker Threat

Save And Secure Online Backup does not create an opening for incoming
connections; outgoing connections can be limited to specific ports at specific
IP addresses. Therefore, only a client that exists within the corporate trusted
network can initiate a session with Save And Secure’s Secure Data Centres. This
eliminates the possibility of any external access to the network.
Firewall Compatibility

Save And Secure Online Backup is compatible with all corporate firewall systems,
including SOCKS and proxy servers. Connections are only initiated by clients
from within the corporate network. The Secure Data Centres never attempt
to connect to a client and thus there is no need to provide an opening in the
firewall that would allow external access to your network.

Enterprise Control Manager for Corporate Networks

AOK is an enterprise control manager that provides rich management and
reporting functionality to corporate IT administrators and help desks. It is
browser based and fully secured to ensure that only users with proper
permissions can access account information. AOK uses secure firewall
authentication together with login and password controlled access. With
AOK, authorised corporate administrators can cancel and suspend accounts,
and reset passwords if a laptop or PC is stolen. And finally, all account
changes and information access are logged to provide an information flow
and access audit trail.

Best Practices Affords Additional Protection

The Save And Secure Secure Data Centres are designed to provide extremely
reliable protection for your important files. To this end we employ:
Transmission Checking: Save And Secure utilises extensive error checking
against data transmitted to the Secure Data Centres to detect
transmission problems. Save And Secure’s client software will retransmit any
data packets when transmission errors have been detected.

Server Mirroring: Save And Secure employs two mirrored Secure Data
Servers at all times. When data arrives at one, it is simultaneously copied
over secure communication lines to the other. By the time Save And Secure’s
client software ends the backup session, the backup data centre has
verified that both copies, one on each redundant machine, have been
successfully created.

RAID5 Redundancy: To provide additional insurance against data loss
due to disk failure, each computer system in the secure data centres uses
RAID5 storage techniques. Inherent to RAID5 is built in redundancy,
which enables the system to automatically recover, without loss of data,
from a disk failure. And of course there is always the second copy of the
data on the second Secure Data Centre machines.

How Strong is DES?

DES, adopted in 1977, is a standard of the US Government. It was originally
developed at IBM and is the encryption standard adopted by the federal
government. It is the most commonly used encryption method and is used,
for example, to secure trillions of dollars in daily electronic bank transfers.
DES has been extensively tested and scrutinised during the last 20 years. No
one has ever found a short cut or ‘back door’ to deciphering messages
encrypted with DES. Over the years various vendors of other encryption
methods have sponsored contests that offer prizes and rewards to anyone
who could decipher a 56-bit encoded message. The goal has always been to
create doubt about DES, moving buyers to their own encryption tools. To
date the DES encryption algorithm has never been broken. Winners
‘guessed’ the encryption key; they couldn’t break the DES algorithm. Since
there are approximately 7.2x1016 keys in 56-bit DES, the contestants
literally tried all the key combinations by splitting up the work over
thousands of machines from around the world. But what does this mean for
security? Estimates are that it would take 25000 years on an Intel Pentium™
machine to try all the keys.

You can rest assured that DES provides excellent security.