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Managed Remote Backup Service

Many businesses now face federal and governing agency mandates to maintain complete back up records of all their electronic business transactions. Industry-specific regulations to impose confidentiality, industry portability, and preservation of financial records force many organizations to implement processes to support data backup and recovery objectives

Online Backup

Backup Professional can assist companies within the medical, accounting and legal professions to comply with these new standards to avoid the penalties now being levied against violators of:

 

 

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), was the result of efforts by the federal government to ensure healthcare data practices permitted ease for patients to move jobs, insurance and healthcare providers.

The goals and objectives of this legislation are to streamline industry inefficiencies, reduce paperwork, make it easier to detect and prosecute fraud and abuse while enabling workers of all professions to change jobs easily, even if they (or family members) had pre-existing medical conditions.

HIPAA requires the ability to establish and maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to ensure integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the information. Healthcare organizations are required to individually assess their security and privacy requirements and take suitable measures to implement electronic data protection (both in transit and in storage). As proposed, a HIPAA-compliant information system will need to include a combination of administrative procedures, physical safeguards, and technical measures to protect patient information while it is stored and while it is transmitted across communications networks. Backup Professional provides critical data security protection without compromising patient privacy and can help customers achieve HIPAA compliance.

Backup Professional assists healthcare providers to be HIPAA compliant in these areas:

Preventing Unauthorized Access

Unauthorized access to individually identifiable health records is strictly forbidden, so care must be taken on how records are backed up, transported offsite and accessed to prevent unauthorized access.

Secure Transmission

Customers’ data is encrypted and transmitted securely to a vault that resides at a world-class data center that is insured to provide data protection services.

Physical Access

Access to the vaults and the data center is strictly controlled through administrative procedures, physical safeguards, and technical security measures to prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of customer data.

Logical Access

Logical access to the data is strictly controlled, with a secure user interface, which provides the ability to set password policies and assign users rights to manage the backup of specific servers. More importantly, access through the web does not permit a user to view the contents of data.

Data Retention

Healthcare providers must retain health records (electronic, written and oral) for a minimum of six years in accordance with the HIPAA privacy final ruling. Data will remain in the Backup Professional vaults for as long as the client chooses to retain it. Backup Professional does not have access to the contents of the data files stored.

 

 

GLBA affects a wide range of financial institutions such as banks, thrifts, credit unions, and insurance firms as well as any firm engaged in activities including:

   Mortgage Lending

   Credit Card Activities

   Securities Brokerage Activities (Including Dealers and Advisors)

   Insurance Sales (Underwriters and Agents)

   Tax Planning and Preparation Services

   Investment Advice

A wide range of non-public personal information and personally identifiable financial information is subject to the privacy controls of GLBA.

Backup Professional answers security concerns by always keeping backed up data encrypted and immediately available. Detailed reporting gives regulators a clear idea of the chain of custody of the stored information, and rapid access, should it be required.

   Data is encrypted before transmission and is always maintained in encrypted state.

   Access is restricted by password authentication. Access to data is date and time-stamped by user.

Data will remain housed in the Backup Professional customer storage areas for as long as the client retains it. Broadbandcrossing.com does not have access to the contents of the data files stored, so it is up to the client to maintain the data in a manner that is compliant with GLBA.

 

 

The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 legislates how long and the manner in which companies store their financial records. Created largely in response to the Enron and WorldCom scandals, the SOX act is designed to safeguard against accounting errors and other illegal financial activities. In placing a more rigorous requirement on financial reports, the storage of these records becomes important as the trail of transactions must be secure.

The regulated companies in choosing a storage method will therefore look at a format that will satisfy the legal requirements of SOX i.e the increased use of online remote data storage facilities / programs.

As an online data storage facility, Broadbandcrossing.com is not privy to the contents of the information stored. The customer alone must maintain responsibility of ensuring that it is in compliance as to what information is being kept and who in the organization (including independent auditors) has access. Backup Professional is only responsible for the availability and security of the information being stored, and has safeguards in place to ensure quality control standards.

Backup Professional assists with SOX compliance in each of these areas:

   The data files are transferred using 128-bit SSL encryption and stored with 256-bit AES encryption. The data is encrypted and decrypted based on the user-defined password. Thus, data stored on the Backup Professional servers cannot be decrypted by anybody other than you or a designate.

   Access is logged with a date and time stamp by Backup Professional each time a document is accessed by a user.

   Client access is only through authorized personnel with the encryption password known only to you.

   All backups are immediately available.

   Data remains in the Backup Professional customer storage area for as long as the client wishes to retain it.

 

 

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) have instituted regulations that demand compliance surrounding the storage of financial records and electronic communication.

Backup Professional assists with SEC / NASD Regulations in each of these areas:

   Data is verified automatically every time a backup takes place.

   Data is available for online restore 24 x 7. All backups are stored with the catalogs (indexes) and accessible to authorized users at all times.

   Data resides on RAID-protected industry leading NAS / SAN storage devices with multiple levels of redundancy. In addition, regular backups guarantee availability of stored data.

Security

Backup Professional is committed to protecting your valuable data to ensure business continuity and helping you meet compliance mandates.

All data is transferred using 128-bit encryption and stored in world-class data centers, using 256 bit AES encryption. The encryption key set by you is used to encrypt and decrypt data thereby ensuring your data is completely safe. Further, your files and folders are periodically backed up to local RAID devices for quick recovery, in case of failure of the primary device.

 

 

Account protection

   Backup Professional transfers files using 128-bit SSL encryption and stores them with 256-bit AES encryption.

   User-defined key that is not stored anywhere on our servers to encrypt and decrypt your data.

   Your data is periodically backed up to local RAID devices for fast recovery in case of primary device failure. *

   The Backup Professional servers are continuously monitored for any network attacks on a 24 x 7 basis using sophisticated software tools.

* Additional redundancy by periodically mirroring the data to an additional data center is an optional feature involving additional charges.

Data center protection

 Your data is stored in data centers that are SAS 70 compliant.

 Your data resides on RAID-protected industry leading storage devices with multiple levels of redundancy. In addition, data is continuously mirrored onto another set of devices for additional security.

  • HVAC temperature control systems with separate cooling zones provided for servers.
  • State-of-the-art smoke detection and fire fighting systems.
  • 24 x 7 video camera surveillance, motion sensors and security breach alarms.

Online Backup

Now is the time to start preparing for data recovery of your business.  Storing data on PCs and servers is taken for granted but when a disk failure, fire, or some other cataclysmic disaster arises, we as business people are lost without our ability to perform our normal daily tasks to run our business.   Broadband Crossing has partnered with one of the best providers in the industry for remote backup and compliance. Don’t delay start today!! Simply go to our contact page, or call us at 877.411.HSIA for a conversation with one of our experts.  The price quote resulting from the conversation shall be delivered promptly to your email address. The quoting service is free! You have nothing to lose.



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