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Seagate Drives Powerful Security
Techtree News Staff, Oct 31, 2006 1140 hrs ISTSeagate Technology has introduced a powerful new security platform, "Seagate DriveTrust Technology" for delivering the highest level of security...
Seagate Technology has introduced a powerful new security platform, "Seagate DriveTrust Technology" for delivering the highest level of security for computing systems, computer electronics, and mobile devices, in a simple and cost effective way.
The DriveTrust Technology, combines strong, fully automated hardware-based security with a programming foundation that makes it easy to add security-based software applications for organization-wide encryption key management, multi-factor user authentication, and other capabilities that help keep digital information safe.
The new technology automatically protects all drive data and not just selected partitions or files, at all times, and its security functions operate independently of the hard drive, thus maintaining the performance of the hard drive.
Commenting on DriveTrust technology, Charles Kolodgy, research director - security products, analyst group IDC, said, "Securing data on the hard drive is an innovative, yet common sense approach that will simplify the deployment and the adoption of security for data at rest. As storage and security converge, solutions like Seagate's DriveTrust Technology will lead the way by providing organizations with strong, easy-to-use security they need to protect their data assets."
Seagate also plans to introduce the first hard drive with full disc encryption, "Momentus 5400 FDE.2" for notebooks. This 2.5-inch, 5,400-RPM drive with hardware-based full disc encryption allows users access with passwords for self-authentication, while third- party enhancements enable thumbprint and smart card options for multi-factor self-authentication.
All cryptographic operations and access control are performed by a separate chip within the drive. The Momentus is expected to be available somewhere in the first quarter of 2007, with 80GB, 120GB, and 180GB capacities.
Presently, Seagate offers a hard disc drive series, DB35, featuring DriveTrust Technology, for digital video recorders (DVRs) and other digital entertainment devices.
Seagate plans to extend the DriveTrust technology to its desktop and storage platforms in future.
The DriveTrust Technology, combines strong, fully automated hardware-based security with a programming foundation that makes it easy to add security-based software applications for organization-wide encryption key management, multi-factor user authentication, and other capabilities that help keep digital information safe.
The new technology automatically protects all drive data and not just selected partitions or files, at all times, and its security functions operate independently of the hard drive, thus maintaining the performance of the hard drive.
Commenting on DriveTrust technology, Charles Kolodgy, research director - security products, analyst group IDC, said, "Securing data on the hard drive is an innovative, yet common sense approach that will simplify the deployment and the adoption of security for data at rest. As storage and security converge, solutions like Seagate's DriveTrust Technology will lead the way by providing organizations with strong, easy-to-use security they need to protect their data assets."
Seagate also plans to introduce the first hard drive with full disc encryption, "Momentus 5400 FDE.2" for notebooks. This 2.5-inch, 5,400-RPM drive with hardware-based full disc encryption allows users access with passwords for self-authentication, while third- party enhancements enable thumbprint and smart card options for multi-factor self-authentication.
All cryptographic operations and access control are performed by a separate chip within the drive. The Momentus is expected to be available somewhere in the first quarter of 2007, with 80GB, 120GB, and 180GB capacities.
Presently, Seagate offers a hard disc drive series, DB35, featuring DriveTrust Technology, for digital video recorders (DVRs) and other digital entertainment devices.
Seagate plans to extend the DriveTrust technology to its desktop and storage platforms in future.
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