SmartPick Backup for SOX Compliance

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires several corporate documents, including email and any form of written communications to be retained for a period of five years. Failure to produce these documents at the time of audit is subject to severe penalties.

Relying on your computer hard disk to retain this data for five years is obviously not a choice. The conventional solution of using tapes and tape libraries incur significant expenses implementing and maintaining the systems, and to store these media securely in an off-site storage facility. Further, to maintain the confidentiality of these documents, additional measure have to be taken either in the form of encryption or physical protection to prevent unauthorized access to the tape media.

SmartPick Backup Solution

SmartPick provides secure automated offsite backup that enables SOX compliance without having to implement elaborate procedures and spending precious IT dollars in expensive hardware and software.

• Automated daily backup with email notification.
• Data is automatically transferred to secure offsite location.
• State of the art security -- 448 bit blowfish algorithm that encrypts your data.
• Data is encrypted on your server, before transmitted to our data center and it remains encrypted on our server.
• Data cannot be read without your secret encryption key which is known only to you.
• Your data will stored in high security, class-A data centers in redundant array storage systems that provide over 99.9% data availability.
• In case of audits your data is instantly available from anywhere using Internet connection.
• Detail daily log files that provides records for compliance audit.

Peace of Mind

Whether your need SOX compliance or not, it is always prudent to backup your critical business data that includes your clients' private data. SmartPick offsite backup service ensures that your backup data is always secure and is available to you when you need it the most, while helping you comply with federal regulations for SOX compliance.