NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Lewisville, TX, United States, 2005/10/11 - OpenTech Systems Inc., developer of the mainframe industry’s leading tape copying and backup software, Tape/Copy and Virtual Data Recovery (VDR), announced today the availability of a new tape data encryption utility called CopyCrypt.

CopyCrypt protects tape data, in compliance with government mandates such as HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), Sarbanes-Oxley, and the GLBA (Gramm-Leach Bliley Act), by encrypting data during the tape copy operation to ensure that the data cannot be read by an unauthorized source.

CopyCrypt exploits the cryptographic hardware standard on IBM mainframes by interfacing with IBM’s Integrated Cryptographic Services Facility (ICSF) to request encryption services and manage encryption keys. CopyCrypt supports all standard encryption algorithms, such as DES (Data Encryption Standard), 3DES (Triple-DES) and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).

“CopyCrypt’s flexible selection capabilities allow the user to be very discriminating not only when choosing which datasets to encrypt, but also when selecting the level of encryption to be used which allows them to balance the need for secure copies with the requirement to keep processing costs as low as possible.”, says OpenTech Systems Director of Technical Services, Don Bolton. “CopyCrypt also compresses data prior to encryption and stacks unencrypted and encrypted data together on the same tape; both features that allow users to get maximum utilization and value from their high-capacity backup tape media.”

CopyCrypt’s copy operation is performed using OpenTech’s proprietary copy engine, which is able to copy any tape data format, including backup data in proprietary formats created by DFSMSdss, FDR and others.

CopyCrypt is available as an add-on option to the Tape/Copy or Virtual Data Recovery (VDR) products for an additional cost and will be available for shipment in November 2005.

Agency / Source: OpenTech Systems, Inc.

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