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XTINCT: A Compliant Data Erase Tool for z/OS
Disk & Tape Data XTINCT is a tool for wiping data from z/OS originated DASD and tape to ensure the original data is unrecoverable and therefore unusable. The product provides users with various levels of protection to ensure compliance with all global industry, security, government, corporate and regulatory compliance requirements, for example, Basel II, DoD, European Data Protection Directive, Gramm-Leach-Bliley HIPAA, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, Sarbanes-Oxley, naming but a few… Historically, disk or tape media was accessed by only a few people, password protected and considered reasonably safe and therefore secure. Even Disaster Recovery (DR) testing at offsite locations didn't raise much concern for the safety of corporate data. After such testing, it was typical to scratch the disk Volume Table of Contents (VTOC) and leave the DR testing facility thinking that sensitive company data was safe. Clearly today, data security is a different story! Terrorism, identity theft, off shoring, outsourcing, litigation, the Internet and the global economy have all highlighted the need for increased data protection. Governments have passed legislation to hold corporations responsible for securing private information under their care. Beyond government standards, industry regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard have further defined the rules, and corporations desiring to do business with them must be in compliance. Failure to comply with these standards for data protection can result in large business losses and severe penalties; so it is no longer simply a matter of due diligence to protect data under your control, it is a necessity! XTINCT provides DSF/E (Device Support Facilities/Extended) functionality, which supplements the basic function provided by the standard DSF facilities provided by IBM, typically known as ICKDSF. In addition to providing a complete audit trail and comprehensive reports to satisfy regulators, XTINCT surpasses NIST guidelines for 'cleaning' and 'purging' data. XTINCT also satisfies all federal and international requirements including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, HSPD-12, Basel II, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and other data security and privacy laws. The primary functions and associated benefits of XTINCT are:
There are no reliable zero cost or “Freeware” options for secure z/OS data erase activities With the standard supplied utilities such as IEHPROGM, individual data sets or the entire VTOC can be scratched. However, that simply removes the pointer to each data set, leaving all the data on the disk. ICKDSF can perform a MINIMAL INIT to create a label and a new VTOC, but this also leaves all the data on disk. A MEDIAL INIT will re-write the Home Address and record zero, but may still not render data unreadable. Consequently, it will not satisfy the required standard for clearing or purging data. Furthermore, these techniques also take a very long time! Clearly data security requires a robust tool that erases data to exacting standards, as quickly as possible, minimizing data security exposures and maximizing technical personnel and CPU optimization efficiencies. back to top
Safeguarding data security compliance
for both z/OS tape and disk media resources.
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