On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Jason Barbier <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure there is one, My "I need to really get off my lazy ass and take this to > an E-Recycler" pile. but that's only because most of it is off or broken and > not able to be turned on.
The "not able to be turned on/fixed" is the only thing that matters against insiders. Depending on how you store them, the insider threat is also a reason to encrypt your backup tapes and/or secure them in a vault. A six month old full backup still has lots of sensitive info on it and depending on circumstances it will take less than 30 seconds to swap it out for a broken tape cartridge. If you ever do try to use it, the fact that it is broken will be chalked up to a hardware failure and you will never learn that your data has been copied. Hmm, I've never read about this threat model before now. Does anybody know of instances where this actually happened? I've only read about needing to encrypt backups that are going to third-party offsite storage facilities. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
