An interesting article, and it raises a question about security and
privacy issues of encapsulation as a way of preserving records together
with the software needed to make the data available. If you've got
encapsulated records on the truck going to offsite storage, you've
increased the probability that an evil miscreant could actually make use
of lost or stolen records. Without encapsulation, you'd need a lot of
technical nous and access to some expensive IT gear to unravel the
mysteries of terabytes of Oracle tables.

I know encapsulation has so far only been suggested for archival storage
rather than routine offsite storage, but we have records sentenced to be
transferred to State Archives (='permanent') which do fall into assorted
privacy, health and similar categories.

The solution of course is to separate the software and data components of
each encapsulated package, and always transport and store them separately.
All you need to do then is remember where you put that piece of paper
showing which software package goes with what data package.

Glenn

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Glenn". Or whatever. But I haven't, so I didn't.




>Precious Cargo: Offsite Records Storage
>
>Sending critical backup data to a storage facility isn't
>simple anymore. Here are four points to consider when you're
>securing the chain of custody for your data.

>http://www2.csoonline.com/go/index.html?ID=5685&PMID=27758366&s=2&f=1



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