Proposed standards for protecting data on disk or tape are gathering steam within the IEEE. The need to push through such standards has been made more urgent since high-profile companies such as Ameritrade and Bank of America lost unencrypted tapes containing customer data. The IEEEs Security in Storage Working Group is fine-tuning the standards, hopefully for approval in months to come. The standards would address encrypting data at rest on disk and tape, whereas protocols such as IPSec, SSL and Secure Shell are used to encrypt data in transit.”]
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