Business data is the most important asset to companies from any business background and protecting it should be the prior requirement for any business in order to stay successful. Age old systems used blowfish, DES, 3DES and other popular encryption methods for protecting their business data. But every known encryption methods had/have a known threat that compromises security level of business data.
This compromise in security tends to evolve as a never ending story, until AES 256 got into picture in 1997. AES (Advanced encryption standard) consists of 3 varying cipher lengths- AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256. Among which AES 256 is the longest encryption method with 14 hash rounds while AES-128 and AES-192 had 10 and 12 Hash rounds respectively.
Deciphering data encrypted with AES-256 is a difficult and impossible task for hackers to get done with and this made AES-256 encryption to get tagged as military grade security.
But here comes the twist in the happy-go story; The hackers can’t decrypt the encrypted data, only because of the complex algorithm involved in ciphering the business data. But in order to get started with or in order to decrypt the data the users should be aware of the secret key used for encryption. Both the sender and receiver should be aware of this secret key in order to get their hands on business data.
This gave the possible leak or let’s say, a known threat where the hackers either attack the machine of sender or receiver of encrypted data instead trying to decrypt data. If the hacker is wise enough or if either sender or receiver is blind enough, then losing secret key might happen which leads to compromise in security.
Vembu analysed all possible cases involved in security compromises and as a part of its very own patented file system VembuHIVE, included an algorithm that generates secret key for data scheduled to get backed up. This encryption method ensures that the secret key stays unrevealed all along the backup and restore process, thus providing the expected military grade protection to business data.
Please be informed that Vembu BDR suite of products use AES-256 encryption method with a self-generated secret key for backup process. Consider the following scenario to understand the level of security that AES-256 can provide to any business data:
It takes 3.18 x 10^16 years to decrypt business data encrypted with AES-128 for a brute-force attack performed using the world’s fastest supercomputer NUDT Tianhe-2 . Think of the period required to decrypt a business data encrypted with AES-256 (Which has twice the bit length of AES-128)?
It takes 1.03*10^55 years and that too if the above mentioned world’s fastest supercomputer is used for the attack.
Interested to protect your business data with the most secure way possible?, do try Vembu BDR suite of products today: https://www.bdrsuite.com/try/
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