Oracle has launched Oracle Secure Backup, a low cost tape management system.

The company claims the software delivers a high-performance network tape backup for Oracle databases on file systems on Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms. Tape devices from over 200 vendors are supported.

Essentially the software encrypts data to tape to help safeguard against the misues of sensitive data in the event backup tapes are lost or stolen.

Oracle claims that the suite is first to embed backup logic inside a relational database. Data is encrypted even before it leaves the database. Data in transit and on tape is kept secure as the keys required for decrypting the data are known only to the source database. This helps ensure that backup tapes that are lost or stolen cannot be read or tampered with by a third party.

Protecting sensitive data has become much more important since companies have had to comply with various regulatory regimes including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the HIPAA.

In particular Section 404's emphasis on internal controls.

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