Media Security Overview

There was a time when protecting information was a lot simpler. Files (mostly paper) were easily stored in basic reinforced concrete vault systems. Increasingly, today's vital corporate information is stored on digital or magnetic media. While these formats make archiving the density of information tremendously more efficient and compact, they are extremely fragile. They require precise levels of environmental control when stored. In fact, when exposed to extreme heat, those same concrete vaults that once protected paper files will create steam, destroying any magnetic or digital data.

Today, protecting and easily retrieving critical information assets are absolute requirements for businesses to survive, despite the odds in today's marketplace. According to recent statistics, 71% of companies whose data processing facility is destroyed by fire or other disasters never recover from the loss, or fail within three years.

Empire vault systems are specifically designed to protect digital and magnetic media by securing the vault chamber environment and preventing excessive temperatures from jeopardizing the integrity of the media being stored. Our vaults are engineered to address the challenges presented by today's technologies, corporate facilities, and ways of doing business.

Our vault systems are specifically designed to protect digital and magnetic media by securing the vault chamber environment and preventing excessive temperatures from jeopardizing the integrity of the media being stored. Our vaults are engineered to address the challenges presented by today's technologies, corporate facilities, and ways of doing business.

 

Media Vault Tour

All vaults are custom designed and components may vary by client need. Not all vaults will include all of the possible components shown in this schematic design.

Class 125 Four-Hour Rated Vault Door Man Trap Staging Area Suppression System Abort Panel Annunciator Alarm Status Panel Biometric or Card Access Control Unit CCTV Surveillance Full Recovery Set — Transfer Cart Vapor Barrier/Magnetic Shielding High Density Slotted Media Storage Watershield Roof Deck Business Recovery Computers, Servers and Software Sets for Recovery Suite Environmental/Alarm Monitoring 3M™ Novec 1230™ Fire Suppression Secure Transit Containers Insta-Recovery Sets

IT Security is now the Law!

Data and system protection is mission critical for your most important hardware and data processing environments. To insure the survival of real time information assets and assure the continuation of the IT environment a protective chamber should be used for your IT hardware and systems. Our factory's long history of protecting fragile computer media has assisted many organizations in safeguarding their server environments, jukebox and silo hubs and co-location facilities.

Recent laws such as Sarbanes Oxley impose harsh penalties on CEO's and CFO's who allow the data media and information assets of an organization to be destroyed or lost for any reason. Heavy fines and criminal penalties of up to 10 years imprisonment make it mandatory that corporations address the issue of protecting data centers and data archives. Government statistics in this legislation reveal that 93% of all information assets start as digital records and only 30% are ever printed to paper. SEC requirements of treating email as business records imposes and even heavier burden on IT professionals to protect information in all its locations and formats.

The very image of your organization and its stock value rely on a professional and fail-safe program of protecting mission critical information systems technology.

The IT Environment provides a fireproof, heat insulated, magnetically shielded, Zone Four Seismic Data Protection Chamber that is used at the highest levels in the United States Government to protect vital information and hardware assets.

The Affinity Network also assures that a nationwide network of secure, professional offsite media storage vaults exist for immediate storage needs. Protecting your assets on-site and your media off-site provide a complete system for security of your vital information systems. No one else offers this level of protection and design planning.

The security of this program protects your officers, Board of Directors and the shareholders.

The cost of a Data Chamber is often less than the raised floor and mechanical systems and is a necessity in today's "World at Risk!"

 

Available Ratings
Our factory has been designing and installing vaults since 1985. Since that time, our technology has advanced greatly from providing vaults that are capable of protecting paper documents. These vaults are Class 350 Four-Hour Fire Rated, meaning the vault interior will not exceed 350°F (177°C) for a four hour duration and with heat exposure of up to 2,000°F (1,000°C).

We are unique in that we offer a Class 350 Six-Hour Vault for clients' special high-risk needs.

Our vaults provide a Class 125 Fire Rating for a minimum of two hours, but as vaults increase in size, the vault rating increases in duration. Our 28' x 28' x 8' vault will deliver a Class 125 Four-Hour Rating. This is four times the protection that a typically constructed data safe can provide.

Our factory — as the pioneer in protective fireproof vaults — was the first to develop a vault chamber that could endure a five hour fire. The significance of this is that many of our competitors discuss fire rating in terms of 90 minutes or two hours, but fail to mention that to survive this period they requested the testing laboratory to turn off the test furnace at 60 minutes.

All of our vaults can endure five hours of fire testing and then be exposed to heavy fire-fighting hose streams. ASTM E-119 Test Protocol and UL 72 Testing Procedures were employed. No other vault chamber can provide this endurance and survive to protect your media assets.

 

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