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Cohesity Solution Guide for Sheltered Harbor

Glossary terms for NetBackup Sheltered Harbor solution

The following are the terms used for NetBackup Sheltered Harbor solution:

Table: Glossary terms

Terms

Definitions

Archive volume

An encrypted file resulting from the encryption of the compressed volumes. A set of archive volumes for the same financial entity and business date constitutes an archive.

Archive

A set of archive volume files containing encrypted account data files as the financial entity stores the data securely in the data vault.

Archive generation

The daily data vaulting process that generates the archive by compressing and consolidating the account data files and corresponding hash files into the set of compressed volume. The archive gets encrypted to yield the archive volumes.

Archive repository

A sub-process of the daily data vaulting process to securely store the archive volumes and secure envelope in the data vault.

Attestation message

A daily message is sent to the monitoring log during vaulting attestation as a proof of a successful archive repository for the financial entity.

Cryptographic material

A set of cryptographic parameters used for validation and decryption of the archive volumes to restore the account data files during a NetBackup Sheltered Harbor solution event.

Data restoration

The process of extraction of the account data files from the archive volumes and validating the integrity of the extracted files.

Data vaulting

A daily process of extracting the data from the originating institution and storing in the immutable storage.

Encryption keys

Encryption keys are created with algorithms designed to ensure that each key is unique and unpredictable.

Immutable vault

The property of the data vault, which guarantees that the content of the vault cannot be erased or modified in any worse-case scenario.

Input data

A set of files that is provided by the originating institution to the daily process to perform archive generation and secure repository for a financial Institution. The fileset that includes the manifest, account data files, and corresponding hash files.

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