How Secure Are Online Backups?
All communications between Intelliwire Offsite Backup Server and your computer are transported in a 128-bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) channel. Although all your backup files travel through a public network (internet), eavesdroppers have no knowledge of what has been exchanged. All of your files are first zipped and encrypted with a your defined encrypting key before they are sent to Intelliwire Offsite backup server. To all people but you, your files stored on Intelliwire Offsite backup server are no more than some garbage files with random content. The encryption key used to encrypt your files resides only on your computer and is known only to you. It is never transmitted anywhere across the network. If this key is lost, all backup files can never be recovered. Therefore, although we have access to all files you stored on our backup server, we have no knowledge of the content of the files you stored. Reminder: Please make sure you write down you encryption key in a safe place where it
Very. You — and you alone — have access to your data files because Dr.Backup encrypts your data prior to transmission to our offsite backup storage vault. Military-grade encryption technology and a user-defined password (encryption key) ensure that nobody, including employees of Dr.Backup, can access your data. Compare this to the total lack of security on most tape, zip and CD/DVD drives.
• Secure 128-bit SSL communication. All communications between Offsite Backup Solutions Backup Server and your computer are transported in a 128-bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) channel. Although all your backup files travel through a public network (internet), eavesdroppers have no knowledge of what has been exchanged. • Backups are securely encrypted. All of your files are first zipped and encrypted with a your defined encrypting key before they are sent to Offsite Backup Solutions backup server. To all people but you, your files stored on Offsite Backup Solutions backup server are no more than some garbage files with random content. • We don’t keep your encrypting key. The encryption key used to encrypt your files resides only on your computer and is known only to you. It is never transmitted anywhere across the network. If this key is lost, all backup files can never be recovered. Therefore, although we have access to all files you stored on our backup server, we have no knowledge of
