iForem has spent years building a technology base insuring Preservation and Peace of Mind into the future.  Now that is all well and good, but Technology is what got us into this problem.  There are so many interesting papers on technology and preservation.  This is a fantastic paper on the subject by Ronald Jantz and Michael J. Giarlo.  See paper here at this LINK

But where is the money and the plan to secure all this technology?  iForem is the only answer.  We studied this problem for a years.  I, as the founder of iForem, have known the pain of building such technologies.  I came to see that even if all the technology were perfect, who would pay to keep it up?  Who would be able to create the financial reserves and the plan to preserve my Peace of Mind even if the perfect technology was sitting right there.  It takes planning, management, commitment, and most of all an ability not only to defer the cost, but put the ownership of each individual person. 

The only answer to this problem was an irrevocable financial trust.  Sold to each person and built to support the mission of Preservation and Peace of Mind.  We needed to create a company that could fund and set up the immense  burden of technology, legal development, and in the end the financial trust for the individual user.  That was our discovery.  That in time, all technology will change.  Formats, methods, computers, th? basic access to the assets will migrate in time.  But if you could create a trust dedicated to maintaining and developing solutions over time, you can be prepared.  Wealthy people have done this for art, why not digital assets?

Technology is the method, but the iForem is the answer.  We set out on this mission to provide you the individual and business a chance for the future.  A chance to experience Preservation and Peace of Mind.  We will be here even when technology changes.  We will be here working to insure generations will have access to our legacy.

iForem - Preservation and Peace of Mind.  Ask your other services, backup providers, websites, how will they insure what iForem has given you as a Beneficiary of our service.

I came across this article today by By Suzanne Choney.  The best part for me was reading why iForem was created. 

“Storage expert Thomas Coughlin likens it to drowning in a sea of content “if we don’t create ways to organize and find stuff,” as well as to protect it by backing it up”…”Increasingly, it’s becoming digital content from cradle to grave. That has its own challenges, which include how do you preserve and protect digital content for the future?

“We have more of the personal experience that we’re conserving (digitally) for the next generation than ever before, but in a sense, in a more potentially fragile package than has ever existed in the history of mankind,” he said.

“Almost everybody is doing storage of one sort or another. How well they’re handling it, how well they’re backing up, and will stuff that they keep be available later? That’s a whole other problem.”

iForem is really the only viable solution.  We created the financial and technological solution to address this exact problem.  With new products on the way to answer format and presentation issues for years to come, we are building the future today.  Come see how iForem answers this statement.

There is always a chance something bad will happen when information is stored on a laptop.  Its not always about the backup. It is sometimes simply about the data left there.

iForem is encrypted and secure.  While we all need to work in our daily lives, we want Peace of Mind in our future.  There are many companies simply backing up your assets.  iForem is the only company making sure they are protected and available for life.  It is about preserving, sharing, and knowing your critical information is secure.

Find what is important to you, use iForem services to preserve your Peace of Mind today.

The full story of this available here: CNN

When we say that iForem provides guaranteed lifetime protection for critical content, we mean exactly that. No ifs, ands or buts. Recently, we noticed that other companies are saying painfully similar things, so we checked - and sure enough, they simply can’t deliver - and sometimes, they\know it.

Let’s summarize: iForem - and only iForem - delivers the goods:

1. Pay-Once: No recurring fees
2. iNuity Irrevocable trust: No cancelation or loss of service
3. Location Diversity: Disaster protection
4. Enterprise-grade Security: Server-side encryption and two-factor login options

Now for the reality check: First and foremost, only iForem guarantees lifetime service with no recurring fees. The “perpetuity pretenders” can’t pull this off, since they either base your data’s longevity on a never-ending subscription payment model with no price guarantees - so bottom line, if you miss a payment, it’s bye-bye bytes. Other services route payments through a non-profit foundation, which sounds good but cannot offer any time of permanence.

Which brings us to iNuity. An independent subsidiary of iForem, iNuity is an irrevocable financial trust that receives a percentage of all iForem sales. iNuity’s mission in life is to operate and maintain iForem customers’ Digital Safe Deposit Boxes from here to eternity.

We dare the other guys to offer that!

But wait - there’s more!

How do we know that we’re the only ones who can guarantee that our offer is the real deal? For this, you have to delve into the fine print of what’s usually referred to as Terms and Conditions. (You know - the stuff hardly anyone reads, largely because it’s so unreadable - but you do have to check that little box that says you’ve read and agreed to those terms.)

It turns out that these other guys reveal all in their Terms and Conditions, where the intrepid customer can discover phrases like what follows. Note that these are copied directly from the Terms and Agreements of other services claiming to protect your files forever (with the names omitted because we’re nice people).

• [The other guy’s company] shall have the rights to edit or delete User’s content and/or terminate the Terms of Use and/or User’s access to the Websites, at any time without notice in their absolute discretion.
• Upon termination of the Terms of Use or access to the Website (for whatever reason), there shall be no refund of money paid to [the other guy’s company].
• [The other guy’s company] shall not be responsible or liable for the deletion, correction, destruction, damage, loss or failure to store any data.
• [The other guy’s company] reserves the right to terminate your account and delete any data within [the other guy’s company] service if you fail to comply with this Agreement or for cause of any other nature.
• [The other guy’s company] is in no way liable for loss of customer data.

Long story short: you own your iForem Digital Safe Deposit Box. Period. But you just rent it from the other guys.

There’s even icing on our cake: iForem is the only service that is sold to businesses - because we’re the only lifetime content protection service available that’s strong enough for companies to consider using.

iForem. You get way more than you pay for.

The New York Times, MSNBC and others have reported that researchers at Princeton University have found a disarmingly simple way to steal encrypted data from a hard disk. Just like yours.

Wazzat?

Yessir. All it takes a a blast of cold air directed at your computer’s DRAM memory, a reboot, some special software, and voila! no more secrets. While this can’t be done remotely, a stolen computer - or one being scrutinized during an investigation, for that matter - can have its hard drive contents cracked like an egg by someone using no more than a can of anti-dust spray.

While the group’s explanation is pretty technical, the discovery’s application is not. Which makes publishing this for all to see a mixed blessing, since now those lost and stolen government computers containing millions of confidential records will be that much easier to hack. Not to mention yours, should you have the misfortune to have it disappear from your desk or suitcase.

So, once again, we can only say that if you want guaranteed lifetime protection for your sensitive information, iForem’s the only game in town.

No matter how cold it gets.

Seems like a good idea, right? All of your personal health info consolidated on a nice, tidy site that’s easy to update and maintain. Maybe it’s even free.

Not so fast, Sparky.

In Health data storage sites might not be secure, On SFGate.com, Deborah Gage writes that the World Privacy Forum, a non-profit group based in San Diego, California, “is warning consumers about the potential pitfalls of using newly popular services that consolidate personal health records - especially when they’re kept by companies that are not subject to current federal regulations on privacy and security.”

You mean, like, accessible by anyone?

OMG!

Here’s the skinny:

Physicians, hospitals, insurance companies - in general, all firms that, one way or another, bill for medical services - have to comply with federal privacy and security standards regulation set out in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA.

The bad news is that when it comes to other companies that want you to store your sensitive medical information online, it’s like the Old West. There are no guarantees that your data won’t be shared, marketed or otherwise exploited - even if the company claims to be “HIPAA-c?mpliant”!

But wait - there’s more!!!

Remember the old standby of doctor-patient confidentiality? Gone with the wind - and apparently, nobody at these firms has a legal obligation to give a damn as long as there’s a loophole in their corporate privacy policies.

And, like some folks on MySpace and other social networking sites have discovered, there’s one unavoidable risk when online data is stored with anything less that vault-like security and guaranteed privacy: Once you upload it, it’s there for the world to see. This means that even if you update those files, the previous data can still be found with a simple Web search.

Bottom line? Be afraid…be very afraid.

Unless you rely on iForem.

Looks like Sears hasn’t been paying attention to the well-known problems of spyware and data security. As reported by Thomas Claburn at InformationWeek, spyware researcher Benjamin Edelman states that Sears is installing online tracking software without adequate informing web visitors and obtaining their consent. Moreover, Edelman says the company is violating its privacy policy by exposing its customers’ purchase histories to anyone who searches for the info.

How can this be? Surely any large organization collecting data from customers on its web site would take every possible step to prevent both of these situations!

Aye, there’s the rub. Sears, apparently, has messed up. Big time.

First of all, Sears is installing ComScore online spyware “that tracks all your Internet usage - including banking logins, e-mail, and all other forms of Internet usage,” says Benjamin Googins, a researcher at security company CA, in a blog post.

Even worse, Edelman notes, Sears’ Manage My Home site - while offering some useful features - allows anyone to view what Sears customers have purchased by offering “no security whatsoever to prevent a Manage My Home user from retrieving another person’s purchase history by entering that person’s name, phone number, and address.”

Sears has since claimed that it adequately informs potential users of what will happen, tracking-wise, if they sign up. Edelman disagrees. However, Sears acknowledges its privacy problems and has stated that it has turned off the ability to view a customer’s purchase history until unauthorized access can be restricted.

Duh.

Our point is simple. This cannot and will not EVER happen with files you store in your iForem digital vault. Our entire system is designed with security as the first and most important consideration. We install NOTHING on your computer that tracks your Internet usage, and there is NO POSSIBLE WAY for anyone other than you and your authorized users from seeing your documents. End of story.

No, we don’t sell washing machines or power tools. We provide Perpetual Peace of Mind.

Asked what a lifestyle change is one may get many answers. My answer is, pay-once and keep something for life! That is a new lifestyle choice. Can you have your utility service for a one time payment? Can you connect with your customers for life with a one time payment? Do you trust a free service to be your partner for life? I found the answers these questions to be NO! What is important in my lifestyle?

We all know that Google rules the world. Kinda. Now this search engine Godzilla is getting set to make even more of our lives available to…everybody.

State governments maintain scads of personal information, and many make these public records available online. Until recently, however, the files haven’t been indexed by Google (or by other searchmeisters, like Yahoo and Microsoft), mainly because they couldn’t understand the government file formats.

But the times, they are a-changin’.

Google is now providing free consulting and software to help make this information easily searchable by these, and other, search engines. That means by friends, family and - here’s the scary part - foes. Notably the ones that want nothing more than to use any tool available to steal your identity and rob you blind.

It’s like handing out keys to your safe deposit box.

To date, Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Utah, and Virginia are on board. Other states may follow like dominoes. Never content, Google is already taking aim at local governments.

The point here is that increasing types and amounts of personal information stored online are being indexed by search engines. Anything seems fair game. So if you’re using one of these online storage sites - free or not - you’ll have to wonder if your private files have become fair game.

This is precisely what sets iForem apart. No document stored in an iForem digital archive will ever be accessible by searchbots. Period. No exceptions.

Don’t give digital pirates a piece of your action. Give yourself perpetual peace of mind instead.

Remember that first USB thumb drive? How liberating it was to replace those bulky, heavy, musty old photo albums with a svelte electronic device the size of (duh) your thumb! True, those Norman Rockwellian moments - three generations sitting before a crackling fire, reminiscing over decades past, fading images laid out before them - would disappear along with those albums…but hey! It was just so darn cool.

Fast-forward to today. You probably have more of these little wonders than you now what to do with, and wistfully recall how easy it was to leaf through an album as you try to remember which thumb drive holds that one image you need right now.

If only that was the real problem.

These modern marvels - along with CDs, DVDs, and other portable storage devices - are referred to as discrete media. You may well use them to hold more than photos, storing digitized versions of personal, private and very important information. And, no matter how careful you are, they can go missing. As the usually-cautious UK discovered recently in a national scandal.

Yep. Despite being sent “as safely as possible,” two disks containing sensitive benefit details of 25 million people have disappeared. Gone. Kaput. Along with the most personal, never-tell-anyone, identity-theft-in-a-bottle data that those folks possessed, the reputation of the UK’s HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officials, and the precious peace of mind that is now doomed to be nothing more than a fading memory. Like those photos.

So think very carefully about how and where you choose to safeguard your vital documents. Lost is lost, no matter how cool it once seemed.