Protected and encrypted Backup data
All your files are first compressed and encrypted, with your encryption key, and then sent to the Fortikup server. The files stored on Fortikup Backup Server are unreadable files with an apparent casual content for everything else but you.



AES 128-bit over SSL
The authentication parameters and the encrypted files are further protected through an SSL channel. All the communications between the Fortikup servers and your computer are carried out through a 128-bit SSL channel (Secure Socket Layer).
Although travelling through the Internet, your files will be protected from indiscrete interceptions.
Such an encryption mechanism is used both at a military level as from the bank world in general.



Extremely protected encryption keys
The encryption key used to encrypt files is found in your computer only and is known by you only. It is never transmitted in the network so that also the Micso Fortikup Administrators will not be able to decipher and visualize the content of stored files on the backup server without your authorization.

Technical details
The encryption key for the different backups is stored in your computer in the file config.sys, which is encrypted with a proprietary algorithm.

Use of the best algorithm
Currently, the algorithm, which is used for the file encryption is of 128-bit Twofish. It consists in a block cipher designed by Counterpane Labs. It was also one of the five Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) finalists chosen by the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST). It is subject to public reviews and no attack against this alorithm has ever been reported.

You would need 8.77 x 10¹⁷ years to uncover the 128-bit encryption
The key at a128 bits has 2¹²⁸ or about 3.4 x 10³⁸ possible combinations. Even by using the most powerful computer in the world you would need 8.77 x 10¹⁷ years to test all the combinations. By assuming that you have a supercomputer "ASCI White" with 8192 processors and a total capacity of 12.3 Teraflops (trillions of operations per second), by using a "brute force" attack with this kind of encryption you would need:



This time is greater than the age of the Universe estimated at 13,000,000,000 (1.3 x 10¹⁰) years.

Redundant: safety in two Server Farms
MICSO FortiKup doesn't store the Backup data on the Servers present in the primary Server Farm. An appropriate service, constantly in operation, replicates the content of the primary Server Farm on as safe secondary Server Farm, separated from the first one. This second Server Farm is a real and proper "safe". It has been typically created for applications of the world bank in the full respect of all the most restrictive safety rules. In its interior there are Servers and applications of primary national banks.