A constant source of quiet amusement for me is drawn from visiting sites where the server room is secured by multi-factor authentication, but the backup tapes are stored in the unlocked cupboard above the system administrator’s cubicle.
The thinking goes something like this: the server room is locked because servers are expensive to replace. The backup tapes are unlocked because no one has really thought about how much important data is actually stored on them, or because last year Rocky had a dentist’s appointment on a day when Jeff needed a file restored and Kleefy forgot where he’d put the spare key.
Backup tapes contain all your organization’s data. They should be as secure as your servers are.
Of course all someone needs to do to get access to all of an organization’s data is wander off with a backup tape. In many organizations, backup tapes are so poorly organized that it would take the person doing the backup a while to figure out if some of them had actually been stolen (mostly because the first assumption, when you can’t find a particular tape, is that someone left it on top of the tape drive in the server room!).
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Source: windowsitpro.com
By: Orin Thomas
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