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Peeking over the tape moat

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Video duration
00:24:27
Language
English
Abstract
As the threat of ransomware continues to grow, many organizations look towards magnetic tape storage solutions to provide a last line of defense for their data.
Tape has a number of interesting properties which set it apart from flash and spinning disk technology, such as an air-gap between the storage media and the reading/writing device, immutability of written data, and a long shelf life. These make it an attractive option for keeping data safe over longer periods of time.
Doomsayers have long foretold the death of tape, yet there has never been more data stored on it than today. Tape system users include major financial institutions, government archives, and hyperscaler cloud providers, just to name a few.

This presentation will give an introduction to data storage on tape media, potential attack vectors, and mitigations for these.

This presentation will have two parts: A brief introduction to how magnetic tape works and is used in a data center, followed by security aspects from an operator's point of view.

This presentation is of course just my thoughts on tape and in no way shape or form organized by, approved by, or representing the views of CERN the organization.

Talk ID
camp2023-57227
Event:
camp2023
Day
4
Room
Milliways
Start
9 a.m.
Duration
00:20:00
Track
Milliways
Type of
Short Talk
Speaker
Richard Bachmann
Talk Slug & media link
camp2023-57227-peeking_over_the_tape_moat
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