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Strong
Encryption |
Your files are protected
using 448 bit Blowfish
Encryption before they leave your
PC. This extremely secure "bank
grade" encryption algorithm has
never been cracked. Your files are then
stored in this encrypted state at our
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Individual
Data Security |
With Backup Proshop,
each user gets their own individual
account and password. This means that
each user also gets a unique encryption
key. This encryption key ensures that
while your data is securely stored at
our data center, only you have access
to your data. In fact, even our most
privileged systems administrators do
not have the ability to decrypt your
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Password
Security |
Great
lengths are taken in our system to ensure
your password remains a secret. Our
password security practices have been
modeled after premier online banking
web sites.
Your password is encrypted before
it is stored in our database. At no
point is an administrator able to
retrieve your password. Nor does an
administrator have the ability to
set your password to a known value.
When you activate your account, you
are required to choose a password
and set up a security question. If
you forget your password, or repeatedly
try to log in with an incorrect password,
the system will lock you out after
a few attempts. You may then reset
your password by correctly answering
your security question.
If you incorrectly answer your security
question, you are again locked out
after a few attempts. In the unlikely
event that you forget your password
and the answer to your security question,
you must contact Backup Proshop directly
for manual identity verification.
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Secure Data
Center |
Your
data is securely stored in our Carrier
Grade data center. Our all Cisco based
switched network employs redundant Internet
providers, redundant routers, and redundant
firewalls. We use BGP and HSRP protocols
to implement fail-over and redundancy.
Our data center was up and running throughout
the big blackout of August 2003.
We use only Carrier Grade computer
hardware from major manufactures to
store your data. There are no "clones"
in our data center. All systems operate
on redundant power. Servers have dual
power supplies fed from separate electrical
panels. The facility includes triple
redundant diesel generators, dual
redundant UPSs, the latest fire suppression
equipment, and 24 hour guards on-site.
When your data is stored on our servers,
it is written to RAID 5 disk arrays
(including hot spare drives). Each
storage server is then replicated
in real time to a second storage server
for backup. Every precaution is taken
to protect the integrity of your data.
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End to End
Verification |
As each file is transferred
to our data center, we carefully verify
its integrity against a known CRC signature.
Files are reverified each time they
are written to disk. If any file fails
verification, it is retransmitted from
your PC or recovered from the replica
server. This ensures that the data stored
on our servers is the same data that
was stored on your PC. |
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Secure Protocol |
The Backup Proshop
client communicates with our servers
over a proprietary protocol that was
designed specifically for Internet backup.
Other Internet backup products that
use popular web protocols like HTTP,
FTP, or WebDav can be vulnerable to
hacker and virus attacks. The extreme
popularity of these protocols makes
them a target. It is extremely unlikely
that a hacker is going to invest the
time and effort to go after a proprietary
protocol. Even if they did, the 448
bit Blowfish Encryption has never been
broken. |
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Firewalls |
To maximize
compatibility with home and corporate
firewalls, the protocol used by our
Backup Client was designed to look to
a firewall just like the SSL protocol
used in web browsers. This means that
if you are able to surf to our web site,
you will be able to connect with our
backup software.
Specifically, our backup client runs
on port 443 and mimics SSL's handshaking
protocol. Almost all firewalls will
pass our backup traffic without reconfiguration.
We also support the use of proxy servers.
Our web browser interface also uses
generic HTTP and HTTPS on ports 80
and 443.
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Corporate
Remote Access Policy |
Many
organizations have a policy to control
access to their data from outside of
the organization. VPNs and Firewalls
are generally used to control this,
but become ineffective when the data
is stored off-site. The same features
that empower a laptop user to backup
and restore his data while on the road
may violate corporate information policy.
Backup Proshop includes the ability
to restrict data access to only specific
IP addresses. A Corporate Administrator
can define the IP address ranges of
their firewalls and access points.
Once the definitions are in place,
users can only access the data from
the allowed locations.
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