A majority of large corporations have suffered from confidential data theft, phishing, data tampering by insiders (or outsiders), and application hacking. To add to that, they are often not aware of these breaches, until after the damage has been done. The same way physical,...

To use the local security settings to force Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and 2000 to use NTLMv2: Open the Local Security Policy console, using one of the following methods:  The Local Security Policy console...

Current Version   Changes in 3.0.9.0 Bug Fixes  

Spitfire StoreSafe supports the following encryption standards which are safe and strong NIST FIPS-197 AES encryption and decryption NTT/Mitsubishi Camellia encryption and decryption NIST FIPS-46-3 3DES encryption and decryption CAST5, RC2 encryption ...

To mount an NFS StoreSafe virtual storage on Mac OS X using command line tool, execute the following in console mount -t nfs <storesafe hostname>:/<virtual storage> <mount point> To unmount, umount <mount point>

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the de-facto industry standard for carrying business data. It is simple, and very flexible text format. Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing. XML is playing increasingly important role in exchange of...

Summary Multi-threaded applications having file access on Spitfire StoreSafe NFS virtual storages experience slow response during file read and write. More Information Highly multi-threaded applications with intense file read/write access experiences slow response and file...

Current Version   Changes in 2.2.0.0 Bug Fixes  

Click 'Continue to this website (not recommended)' on alert message 'There is a problem with this website's security certificate' You should now be at a page on the system with IE7 indicating a certificate error. Click on the box that states a 'Certificate...

Selected models of Spitfire appliances are fault-tolerant by design. Other Spitfire appliances can be configured to run in high-availability mode such that when the active appliance fails, backup takes over and act as active node. Spitfire system settings and security...

Bloombase StoreSafe delivers scalable data-at-rest encryption at performance with available number of CPU processor-cores and/or vCPU allocated to the software appliance instance.   On hardware platform with presence of Intel AES-NI cryptographic acceleration...

Keyparc Business client auto startup function required creating registry entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run If Windows Domain administrator decided to enable "Prevent access to registry editing tools" or "Do not...

For StoreSafe SAN target, if the host send SCSI command size bigger the HBA support, there will be I/O error and the following log message will appear in system log: ***ERROR***: Too low max_hw_sectors 65535 sectors The workaround is to limit the maximum size of...

The qlport_down_retry setting specifies the number of times to attempt to reconnect to a port if it is down when using multipath I/O in a cluster. Use the following setting in the /etc/modprobe.conf file: options qla2xxx qlport_down_retry=3 This option will also...

There is no golden rule on what a typical implementation and deployment process for data protection and specifically for Bloombase StoreSafe. Nevertheless there are some major milestones and checkpoints below which can serve for customer's reference: Preparation ...

The Government of Hong Kong sets out rules and regulations to ensure government agencies to secure IT infrastructure and electronic data from various vulnerabilities and potential threats Baseline IT Security Policy (S17) IT Security Guidelines (G3) Internet...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data has brought the Personal Data Privacy Ordinance in 1996. The purpose of the Ordinance is to protect the privacy interests of living individuals in relation to personal data. It also contributes to Hong Kong's...

The United States of America Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the “Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act” or GLB Act (GLBA), includes provisions to protect consumers’ personal financial information held by financial institutions. There are three principal...

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, passed in year 2002, has huge impact on how enterprises are managed. The Act requires enterprises to change their business processes to adapt to assurance of finance data at high integrity. The act was enacted in response to numerous accounting fraud...

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (or PCI DSS in short) was developed by credit card companies including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and JCB, etc as a guideline to help merchants and transaction processing companies to prevent credit card fraud,...