General Introduction_Piql

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MIGRATION BASED VS. MIGRATION FREE STORAGE

CYBER CRIME Along with the growth of data and cloud services comes cyber crime. As securityexpert at Check Point Software Technologies, Christian Sandberg, so cleverly puts it: “It is easier to get hold of digital weapons than physical weapons. Crime is shifting over to the digital world. You hardly hear of bank robberies anymore.” CYBER-CRIME STATISTICS • 400% increase in loss of business data records the past three years. • 88% of all organisations suffered a data loss incident last year. • 94% of all organisations used at least one high-risk application last year. • 275 new, unknown malware was discovered every minute throughout 2015. • One in five employees would be the cause of a company network breach through either malware or malicous wi-fi.

We secure future access to valuable data, by offering a unique combination of features:

MIGRATION-FREE Avoid the risk of corruption and data loss, save time and get a more predictable long-term cost. FLEXIBLE Data can be stored in digital formats or as human readable texts or images. PERMANENT piqlFilm & piqlBox are tested to safeguard data for 500 years. SECURE Data is safeguarded from cyberattacks, logical threats, EMP and physical threats.

SEARCHABLE Your metadata is fully searchable. You’ll find what you need, whenever you need it.

Source: 2016 Security Report - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd

UNALTERABLE By using a a true WORM 1 medium, it’s impossi- ble to modify or delete your valuable data.

SOLVING THE PROBLEM According to Vint Cerf, the best solution to the problems de- scribed is: “To take a snapshot of the content, the application and the operating system together with a description of the ma- chine that it runs on, and preserve that for long periods of time. And that digital snapshot will recreate the past in the future”.

FUTURE-PROOF Data retrieval is independent of specific technologies or vendors.

1 WORM - Write once, read many

Piql has explicitly created such a digital snapshot.