8bitsafe was born from the desire to have secure, reliable, fast backups without sacrificing privacy. Initially starting out as backup software for personal use, expanding into cloud backed storage to provide a fully integrated backup service.
Encrypted backups play a crucial role in protecting sensitive and valuable data from unauthorized access, loss, or theft.
Here's a brief summary outlining the importance of encrypted backups:
Encryption algorithms not only protect data confidentiality but also contribute to data integrity.
It ensures that the data remains unchanged during storage or transmission, preventing unauthorized modifications or tampering.
Many industries, such as healthcare (HIPAA), finance (PCI-DSS), and data protection laws (GDPR), impose strict guidelines on organizations to safeguard personal information and maintain data privacy.
By implementing encrypted backups, businesses can demonstrate compliance with these regulations, mitigating the risk of penalties, legal action, or loss of customer trust.
Businesses often possess valuable intellectual property, sensitive information, and proprietary data that constitute their core assets.
Encrypted backups ensure the preservation of these assets.
Many services list secure and encrypted as features but in most cases the encryption is done server side giving the service provider full access and responsibility for securing your data.
Since they have the encryption keys there is an increased security risk, they may also analyse your data for marketing purposes. We do not feel comfortable backing up important documents and files to such services.
We valued our privacy; we figured you would, too.
Client-side encryption allows users to retain control over their encryption keys, maintaining a higher level of privacy.
Ensuring that sensitive information remains confidential and protected from unauthorized access.
Since the encryption and decryption processes occur on the client side, there is less reliance on trusting external entities, such as cloud service providers or server administrators.
Client-side encryption is especially advantageous in situations where the client device operates in untrusted environments, such as public Wi-Fi networks. Even if the network is compromised, the encrypted data remains secure.
When you backup you want peace of mind that you can restore your data. This is why we run extensive automated testing for each release.
We feel comfortable backing up our own important data with 8bitsafe.
If a backup takes a long time to complete you are less likely to backup often and even less likely to have it run automatically. Running backups should also not hog system resources making your machine unusable for the duration of the backup.
This is why we built a backup client from the ground up and continue to invest heavily in performance optimizations to make the most of the hardware you paid for.
Data privacy is a critical aspect of our increasingly digital world, and individuals should care about it for several important reasons:
Personal and sensitive information, such as medical records or private communications, should be kept confidential.
Protecting your data helps safeguard your personal security. Information such as addresses, phone numbers, and financial details can be exploited by malicious actors for identity theft, fraud, or other harmful activities.
Maintaining data privacy is a key defence against identity theft. Cybercriminals can use stolen personal information to impersonate you, open fraudulent accounts, or conduct unauthorized transactions.
Unwanted access to personal data can lead to discrimination, profiling, or misuse of information for unfair practices.
Data breaches and privacy infringements can lead to financial losses.
We are a private company and will never go public. This keeps us independent meaning we can ensure privacy and security stay top priorities.