Online Backup, Remote Offsite Data Back-up via Internet

Security Online Backup

Security of our online backup solutions is treated as a total priority and it is impossible for your valuable information to fall into the hands of unauthorized personnel. Data is transferred in a compressed and encrypted state via a SSL connection to our three highly secure and replicated data centres. Every online backup account owner can limit access and restore to a predefined list of IP-addresses. read more about online security

Access

An encryption key which you generate yourself is only known by you and will never be sent via the internet. If you lose your encryption key your backup will be lost forever! The content of your backup is absolutely unreadable to PerfectBackup staff despite the fact that we have access to the encrypted files stored at our online storage facilities.

Always keep your encryption key in a save place!

Without the encryption key NOBODY will be able to restore your backup. This includes all PerfectBackup staff!

Connection

To establish the secure online internet connection PerfectBackup uses a SSL connection (Secure Socket Layer). This protocol is similar to the one that banks use for online banking. Despite the fact that your data is transmitted via the internet it is impossible for people to intercept and read the content.

Data Centre ISO 9001:2000 and BS7799 certified.

Our online backup data centres have achieved ISO 9001:2000 status and BS7799 certification, they are heavily protected against infiltration, fire and power outage. BS7799 is a recognised industry standard for benchmarking Information Security Management Systems within an organisation. Once achieved, BS7799 certification demonstrates PerfectBackup's ISO 9001:2000

formal, ongoing commitment to protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of both customers and our own information from internal and external threat and identifies the organisation as a safe trading partner.

Online Data Storage

Your data is stored on highly secured servers in TeleCity data centres located in London, Scotland and Amsterdam. These online storage infrastructures can only be accessed by the highly professional PerfectBackup staff.

Our servers are monitored and guarded 24-hours a day. As an extra precaution a copy of your data is replicated to all PerfectBackup online backup data centres at all times.

Because our infrastructure is so resilient, secure and available, we are the only online backup providers to offer a £1,000,000 data restore guarantee and 99.999% service availability.

Download technical information about our data centres.

Software

Point-to-point SSL communication between server and client.
Supports HTTP/HTTPS Proxy and Socks v4/v5 firewall.
The data is 128-bit encrypted and stored.
Choice of different encryption algorithms, e.g. TwoFish, Triple DES, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Choice of different encryption modes, e.g. Electronic Cook Book (ECB) en Cipher Block Chaining (CBC).
A random initialisation vector and iteration counter are generated automatically during encryption.
Each backup user can restrict online access to his files to a pre-defined list of IP addresses.