Data protection is always a series of calculated risks, and even such technologies as snapshots, continuous data protection (CDP), replication, and RAID are not absolute guarantees of security.

In a traditional desktop environment, user data is often stored on the device, leading to challenges about the security and protection of user private information and corporate intellectual property.

Tape provides another technical differentiator from disk systems that addresses both security and data protection concerns: a completely offline copy of data.