Stoneham, MA and Cambridge UK -- Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, announces Thales CryptoStor Tape 3.0, the latest version of the company's leading appliance for tape backup encryption and key management. CryptoStor Tape 3.0 is the industry's first appliance-based solution to support the new Serial Attached SCSI interface (SAS) as it replaces SCSI as the preferred method for direct-attached storage. Thales CryptoStor Tape supports all three leading storage interfaces, including SAS, SCSI and Fibre Channel for protecting data. In addition, Thales CryptoStor Tape provides automated key management to keep stored data secure and accessible over the course of its lifetime.