Arizona Technology Group, Inc. & Archive the Goods -

How do they do that?!?!

1. Archive the Goods sits quietly on your computer just watching the clock. It then “Wakes Up” at a predetermined time, (usually at night).
   
2. Next it “Scans” your computer for the folders, files and files types you have selected and readies them for backup.
   
3. Next it “Verifies” that what it is backing up, matches exactly what is on your computer.
   
4. Next it “Compresses” the data. Depending on the file type, compression can be as high as 75-90%!! (Many graphics, video, music and CAD files are already compressed, so their compression is less.)
   
5. Next it “Encrypts” the data using the encryption method chosen. Only you have the Encryption Key to recover the data. We can’t access it in any way. DO NOT LOOSE YOUR ENCRYPTION KEY!!!!
   
6. Finally it “Transmits” the data over the Internet to our servers at Arizona Technology Group, Inc.
   
7. Now your data is Offsite, Safe, Secure, & Available, all Automatically.

Archive the Goods Encryption

While the client software is preconfigured to use Blowfish Encryption, Archive the Goods offers various other Encryption Standards.

• DES is the old US Federal Standard


• TDES is a much more secure form of DES


• Blowfish is probably the most secure of all. It uses a key length that is variable from four bits to 448 bits.


• AES is the new US Federal Standard. Archive the Goods supports three levels of AES from 128 bits to 256 bits. 256 bit AES is very secure, but it is also slow.

Where does my data actually go?

Arizona Technology Group, Inc. (ATG) is located just outside Phoenix, AZ. The climate here is hot and dry with very little rain. We are located away from flood plains when it does actually rain. We are not in any active seismic fault areas. Our PowerEdge Servers by Dell are located below ground in a climate controlled space, monitored 24/7 and have battery backups, or Uninterrupted Power Supplies, (UPS). We also have generators in case of a long term power outage. We backup our servers daily and move the media, (DVD/CD/Hard Drives) to a safe deposit box. So, we practice what we preach by moving our, (read, your ) data Off Site. Remember, all we do is store bits and bytes, ones and zeros. We cannot access your backup data at all. There is no backdoor or Master Encryption Key(s). Your data cannot be viewed, decrypted, or used in any way without the key.