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An important first step in taking control of information and helping to meet regulatory requirements is encrypting sensitive data. IBM now offers a comprehensive range of encryption solutions designed to meet your data protection requirements.
IBM System Storage offers the IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive Model E05 which has been enhanced to support data encryption. This encryption capability is now standard on all newly ordered TS1120 Model E05 tape drives and is also available as a chargeable upgrade feature for previously installed TS1120 Model E05 Tape Drives. Also being introduced is a new IBM Encryption Key Manager component for the Java Platform™ (Encryption Key Manager) that is designed to support the generation and communication of encryption keys for the TS1120 tape drives across the enterprise. The TS1120 tape drive with encryption enabled is designed to provide a data protection solution that has the ability to off-load the encryption function from the server to the tape drive (avoiding the server overhead normally associated with encryption) and to provide a cost effective encryption solution for the large volumes of data involved in data archive and backup activities. When used with z/OS, the TS1120 takes advantage of System z's unique security and cryptographic features to provide a powerful solution for enterprise-wide encryption key storage and management.
The Encryption Facility for z/OS, is a host based software solution designed to encrypt sensitive data before transferring it to tape for business partner exchange. The Encryption Facility for z/OS provides a highly flexible solution since your business partners may not need to purchase new storage hardware, have a mainframe or run z/OS. To decrypt the data they have the choice of utilizing a no-cost, web downloadable Java-based client, designed to run in any environment that supports Java. And now with the introduction of the Encryption Facility for z/OS, V1.2 with support for the OpenPGP standard, RFC 2440, this encryption capability is even more flexible allowing your business partners a number of options to choose from when decrypting and re-encrypting data. The Encryption Facility for z/OS is specially designed to help you protect your sensitive data during the data exchange process.
The IBM Data Encryption for IMS and DB2 Databases provides you with a data encryption tool for both IMS and DB2 for z/OS databases in a single product. This product is designed to enable you to protect sensitive and private data for IMS at the segment level and for DB2 at the row level. IBM Data Encryption for IMS and DB2 Databases is implemented via standard IMS and DB2 exits which invoke System z cryptography hardware to encrypt data for storage and decrypt data for application use. Click here to examine how IBM Data Encryption for IMS and DB2 Databases can help.
To provide our customers with open solutions that integrate; both the Encryption Facility for z/OS and the System Storage tape drives with encryption enabled (TS1120) are designed to leverage Centralized Key Management (provided by ICSF in z/OS) for the enterprise and provide support for a variety of system environments. To see which tape encryption solution best suits your needs check out our comparison chart.
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