After conducting a quick online study about the importance of backups, I became interested in learning about the frequency in which people are adapting to new technologies and found that interest in Cloud backup solutions has been constantly increasing over the past few years.
The same goes for cloud backup, which has shown tremendous growth since 2010. More and more IT admins are transitioning their backup services to the cloud. This is a trend we will continue to see more of as new technologies are leveraged in order to improve efficiency.
Maintaining or transitioning to cloud backups has proven to be important among businesses and IT admins across the world. Taking this into consideration, it is not only important that a Cloud backup restores data in the event of a disaster, it is also important that the data is backed up in the most secure way possible.
Assuring safety and security for your data can be done by using data encryption. This Data encryption further contains two major classifieds of encryption available: symmetric and asymmetric encryption.
- Symmetric Encryption- Private Key Encryption
- Asymmetric Encryption – Public Key Encryption
These two encryption have various methods. Among those, AES encryption is the most outstanding encryption method available.
Significance of AES Encryption:
AES encryption supports 3 levels of encryptions based on key length – AES128, AES192 and AES256.
An encryption made by an AES128 can be cracked by a brute-force attack in about ‘3.18 x 10^16 years’ by the fastest supercomputer to date (Wikipedia) ‘NUDT Tianhe-2’ of 2013 which has a Peak-Speed (RMax) of ‘33.86 PFLOPS’.
If an Encryption of AES128 takes this much time as mentioned above, then just think about the time it would take to successfully complete a ‘brute-force attack’ on an encryption done by AES256 (1.03*10^55 years). Using AES256 encryption is the best way to ensure your data is safe, more so than any other encryption methods to date. With this advanced military grade encryption, we are rolling out Vembu BDR v2.0 and Vembu OnlineBackup as Cloud backup solutions for your data and applications.
Fun Fact: AES is a winner of NIST competition and is in compliance with HIPAA and HITECH. You can be assured that both Vembu BDR v2.0 and Vembu OnlineBackup are in compliance with HIPAA and HITECH, which assures a safe solution for backing up your confidential information and data.
