PCI Compliance and Backup To combat identity theft and sensitive data security breaches, major credit card companies combined to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). This standard applies to the security practices of merchants, processors, and point-of-sale providers handling and storing sensitive account information. Organizations processing credit cards and storing credit card information are responsible for establishing, testing, and maintaining security practices that keep sensitive information safe. Credit card issuers and financial institutions can enforce PCI DSS compliance by imposing fines up to $500,000 per incident and terminating your credit card processing services. Compliance with HIPAA's Privacy Rule Mandatory Compliance Date: April 14, 2003 How Remote Data Backups helps you comply: Secure Transmission - RDB uses bank-level 128-bit AES encryption to transmit and store your data using a personalized encryption key that you choose, and (unlike our competitors) only you have access to.

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• Physical Access - Using Remote Data Backups ensures secure, offsite data storage. Our data centers feature the tightest physical and technical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access to our mirrored data center. Both are hardened facilities with limited administrative access, finger scanners for physical access and motion detectors and camera tracking.
• Logical Access - Logical access to backed up data is controlled with a secure user interface. Users can add a password as another layer of security (version 7x) or change the password if they feel the original has been compromised(version 8x).

Compliance with HIPAA's Security Rule

Mandatory Compliance Date: April 21, 2005
How Remote Data Backups helps you comply:

• HIPAA Security Rules require providers to have a written contingency plan for responding to system emergencies. A data backup plan is required as part of the contingency plan, which Remote Data Backups can provide you at no additional charge. The plan will ensure your data is securely and reliably backed up on a routine basis and that your backed up data will be readily available in the event you have a system failure or other form of data loss.
• Using RDB helps reduce your Security "Media Control" risks by eliminating insecure methods of data handling that result from traditional disk or tape backup techniques.
• Files are securely transmitted to RDB's data centers using encryption and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) authentication, access controls, auditing mechanisms, and event reporting as required by HIPAA's Security Policy.