One of the largest credit unions in the United States with over 1 billion in assets, California Credit Union (CCU) maintains and stores personal information on nearly 80,000 members in its financial systems.

CCU sought to encrypt its backup tapes for keeping customer data secure in transit and in storage at the offsite tape-vault vendor’s facility. As a financial institution, CCU was subject to stringent government regulations that included SB1386 and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which required the credit union to protect customer financial information from malicious or unintentional breaches of security. With nearly 60 gigabytes of data to encrypt each night, CCU knew that a software solution was out of the question.