It has happened again. Iron Mountain lost a backup tape that contained credit cards and social security numbers of clients for JC Penney and about 229 other vendors. The total loss is 650,000 credit cards and 150,000 social security numbers according to the IDG News Service.

Most commercial Backup Applications do not support encryption natively. This require a whole lot of extra tools and configuration. This is one of the reasons why we see stories like this. It is still not easy to setup a backup job to be safe and secure on most applications.

Until there is a shift in how we look at Data Backup these stories will become commonplace in our news. It really comes down to what Data Backup is. It is boring stuff, but so is car insurance and you wouldn't drive without car insurance. It can be time consuming, but so can exercise and many of us would not skip the gym for anything. It can be costly, but so is gasoline and as I look at the highways not that many people are stopping driving.

Data Lodge has dedicated the last 4 years to making Internet Backup safe and affordable. We have worked on trying to make it sexy and interesting with little result. Instead we are now focusing on creating a shift in how people look at Data Backup. Our service only requires a few minutes of configuration. It encrypts your data automatically with an encryption key that you choose before the data ever leaves your computer. It sends you an email report when the backup job is complete. Also, we monitor every job on our system so you have a second set of hands protecting your data while you sleep peacefully!

Try Data Lodge free for 30 days, but if you don't use Data Lodge for your backups, please find another solution that works. Don't become a statistic this year.

-The Concierge

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