Description
As the threat of ransomware continues to grow, many organisations look towards magnetic tape storage to provide a last line of defense for their data. Tape has a number of interesting properties which set it apart from flash and spinning disk technology, such as an air-gap between the storage media and the reading/writing device, immutability of written data, and a long shelf life. These make it an attractive option for keeping data safe over longer periods of time. This talk gives a short overview of the security properties you can expect from the storage solution that is likely used by your institution, or behind the scenes at your cloud provider. It is an abbreviated version of a talk previously given at the Chaos Communication Camp 2023: https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57227-peeking_over_the_tape_moat
