[Hidden-tech] New Massachusetts Encryption Law

[rdmurray at bitdance.com]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 at 11:16, David Korpiewski wrote:
> I was just notified about a new Massachusetts data encryption law that is 
> going into effect May 1, 2009.   It is pretty harsh and requires all data 
> with personal information to be encrypted, even on backup tapes. I'm trying 
> to find a software solution that will use software encryption when backing up 
> to a tape library one of the companies I work for already owns.   Does anyone 
> know of any backup software that supports software encryption when dumping 
> data to tape?

Google is your friend :)  There appear to be lots of options.

> Also, I have SQL servers and Access databases with personal data (that I did 
> not create, but maintain).   Does anyone know how to encrypt this data?

According to the press release (but one should probably double check
with a lawyer :(  ), you only have to worry about it if it is on
portable media.  If this data is on a laptop or other portable disk,
then your easiest path is probably to look into an encrypting file system.

--RDM