Secure Encryption by the Dakota Backup Client.

This ensures:

Data security is a major part of our off site data protection services. Data is encrypted at the client's facility using the Dakota Backup Client software to ensure secure data transfer to our storage servers.
• Data can be restored only by the Dakota Backup Client that backed it up, or by another Dakota Backup Client installed using the same encryption types and keys as the original Dakota Backup Client.
• Someone monitoring data transmitted between Dakota Backup Client and the System would intercept only encrypted data blocks. Access to confidential file content is not possible.
• Someone who gained full access to the System Online Storage would not be able to read the contents of backed-up files, since the data is stored in encrypted format and the System does not store the encryption keys.

Encryption Types

• AES 128-bit requires a 16-character key
• AES 192-bit requires a 24-character key
• AES 256-bit requires a 32-character key

Encryption Key

Two encryption keys ensure:

• The private key is provided by the customer at installation and used to encrypt all files except common files for a particular Dakota Backup Client.
• The account key is provided by the customer at installation and used to handle common files for all Dakota Backup Clients from a particular customer account.

Encryption Key Validation

• To ensure that Dakota Backup Client continues to use the same private key and account key at all times, the system verifies key integrity on every connection.

Encryption Security

• The Dakota Backup Client stores passwords that give access to the source computers in encrypted format in their database.
  
• The Dakota Backup Client encryption keys are stored in encrypted format in the registry.

• Even a person with legitimate access to the system (such as the administrator) cannot discover the values of the encryption keys.
• If the Dakota Backup Client machine is compromised (a hacker gains access to this machine), the passwords that Dakota Backup Client uses to access the source computers, and the Dakota Backup Client encryption keys, are not compromised.