Case Studies and Application Notes

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The Farm Credit Bank of Texas Chooses Crossroads' SurePath ™ ReadVerify ™ Appliance to Provide Cost Savings Through Proactive Tape Media Management

"Farm Credit chose Crossroads’ ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) because we need accurate performance metrics for our backups after migrating to an ISCSI storage area network and a Fibre-Channel (FC) based tape library. Our new environment is considerably more expensive, and we plan to use RVA to justify our purchases and make sure we get the best performance out of the new system."
~Budd Trippet, Senior Network Administrator, Farm Credit Bank of Texas

OnRamp Access Chooses Crossroads' SurePath ReadVerify Appliance to Reduce Costs and Offer Enhanced Verification of Data Backups

"As our business has doubled in the past year, so has our need for the most efficient backup process. Crossroads' ReadVerify Appliance offers peace of mind and the ability to proactively manage our tape media and drives. Additionally, we plan to use RVA as another layer of the verification of data integrity for our SOX audit."
~Chad Kissinger, Co-founder and President, OnRamp Access

StrongBox^® Business Case

Though it is becoming increasingly difficult to protect information assets from attacks, it is easier than ever to launch them. Security managers are faced with a daunting task when it comes to safeguarding critical information. They are tasked with defending data against internal and external threats, monitoring activity on a wide variety of databases, managing data in a secure and compliant manner, and providing quick and easy access to archived information for audit and investigative purposes.

StrongBox Application Note (Government)

Combined, federal, state and local government organizations collect, aggregate, transfer, and store more confidential data than any other existing entity. Housed in databases all over the world, this information is accessible to a wide variety of internal and external applications, staff and third party vendors. The significance, value and usefulness of this confidential data make it a desirable target for increasingly sophisticated internal and external security threats. StrongBox™ SecurDB™ provides easy-to-implement, real-time security monitoring for critical government information assets through policy-based intrusion prevention and access control.

StrongBox Application Note (Finance)

“Financial, healthcare and government entities store 80-90% of their sensitive information in databases” notes senior database security consultant and ex-Oracle Industries lead, Anyck Turgeon, “Thus, securing critical data is an essential component of any institution’s ongoing business viability.” Nowhere is this more necessary and apparent than in the heavily regulated financial industry. Mandates surrounding privacy, access, audit and control pose a significant challenge in managing the complex aspects of database security - vulnerability, incidents, and configuration.

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