Seagate and McAfee Drive Advances in Self-Encrypting Notebook Computers
10 Novembre 2008 - 1:59PM
PR Newswire (US)
Seagate Ships Self-Encrypting Drive Easy Enough for Consumers to
Install SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced sweeping advances in its
global push to help secure notebook computer information from theft
or loss. To combat growing threats to mobile information, Seagate,
the world leader in storage solutions, is now shipping its
groundbreaking, self-encrypting notebook PC hard drives, now with
up to 320GB of capacity, to the worldwide distribution channel,
with 500GB models coming soon. Additionally, Dell is now shipping a
notebook with a 160GB self-encrypting hard drive. McAfee is set to
provide software for the enterprise-wide management of notebooks
with Seagate Secure(TM) hard drives. Powerful, easy-to-use notebook
data security is increasingly important as the global adoption of
mobile PCs continues to soar and more notebooks are used to store
sensitive personal and business information. Lost or stolen
notebooks can cost companies millions of dollars in compromised
proprietary information and threaten consumers with the high cost
of identity theft, yet many computers remain unprotected. According
to the United States FBI, a notebook computer is stolen every 53
seconds and 97% are never recovered*. The new Momentus(R) FDE
(full-disk encryption) notebook hard drives, 5400- and 7200-rpm
models with capacities of up to a half-terabyte, deliver powerful
protection to help guard against unauthorized access to information
on lost or stolen notebook computers. Part of the Seagate Secure
family of self-encrypting drives, the Momentus FDE drives feature
government-grade encryption that delivers powerful security for
confidential customer or corporate information on executive
notebook computers, critical customer data on field sales and
customer support notebook PCs, and sensitive information on
personal notebooks. "Delivering easy-to-use notebook security that
also is cost-effective requires leading partnerships and
technologies," said Tom Major, vice president of the Personal
Compute Business Unit at Seagate. "Seagate is pleased to be teaming
with industry leaders to simplify security management for our
customers and providing our OEM and channel customers with the
world's fastest self-encrypting hard drive." Businesses of all
sizes and shapes are turning to hard drive-based encryption
solutions to protect the important information that ensures their
competitive edge. Papa Gino's, a Dedham, Massachusetts-based
restaurant chain, has deployed approximately 80 self-encrypting
notebook computers for its workers since last year and has its
sights set on using the newest secure notebooks. "With these
hardware-based security solutions only the right people get access
to the right information with the best performance and the lowest
price," said Chris Cahalin, manager of Network Operations at Papa
Gino's. McAfee Teams with Seagate to Simplify Management of Secure
Notebooks McAfee joins a growing list of security software
providers -- including SECUDE International, Wave Systems and
WinMagic Data Security -- that are teaming with Seagate to help
secure notebook PCs. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator management system
and McAfee's endpoint encryption client will integrate with Seagate
Momentus FDE hard drives to use the embedded hardware encryption,
giving customers full, user-rich features and the total enterprise
management required to secure notebook computers in heterogeneous
environments. "McAfee provides leading enterprise-class, powerful
encryption and strong access control technologies," said Tony
Jennings, vice president Strategic Partnerships at McAfee. "By
teaming with Seagate on its new encrypting Momentus drive, we are
extending additional protection tools to our customers." Through
McAfee ePO, organizations worldwide can leverage Seagate Momentus
FDE hard drives in heterogeneous environments to secure notebook
information. IT security personnel can enforce policy management
globally, enable token authentication and end-user password
recovery, and aid organizations to prove that a missing notebook
was encrypted at the time it was lost or stolen -- a requirement
for compliance with many data-privacy laws. Seagate Delivers
Strong, Simple-to-Use Notebook Security for Consumers and
Organizations Seagate Secure hard drives are simple and easy for
consumers and organizations to use. Individual computer users who
are not subject to corporate policies and regulatory compliance,
don't need multi-user encryption management and want to protect
personal and other sensitive information can easily deploy a
notebook with a Momentus FDE hard drive, which installs as easily
as a traditional drive. Once installed, the user simply enters a
BIOS password, then logs on as usual, and the security is in place.
The hardware-based encryption engine delivers security without the
overhead -- no bootup delays, no system slowdowns -- and the BIOS
automatically authenticates the user for transparent security. For
organizations requiring high strength authentication and a simple
way to meet state and federal consumer-privacy laws, Momentus FDE
HD -- the industry's first hard drive with built-in encryption --
can be deployed in notebook fleets to enable secure disposal and
repurposing of drives and notebooks; security audits; password
escrow; pre-boot authentication in the form of biometrics,
passwords and smart cards; and simple centralized management. Now
shipping is the Momentus 5400 FDE.3 hard drive with capacities of
320GB and 160GB and 8MBs of cache, as is Momentus 7200 FDE,
Seagate's first high-performance (7200 RPM) self-encrypting
notebook drive, with capacities of 320GB and 160GB and a 16MB
cache. Seagate's Momentus 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM self-encrypting
hard drives in capacities up to 500GB are scheduled to begin
shipping early next year. All Momentus FDE drives feature a fast
Serial ATA interface and built-in AES encryption, an AES
government-grade encryption used to encrypt all hard drive
information transparently and automatically. The Seagate Secure
family is powered by a robust security platform that 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
lock down digital information at rest. Seagate Secure hard drives
are the only other hardware-based encryption solutions that deliver
both AES government-grade security and centralized notebook
security management. The drives aid government, healthcare,
education, banking and financial institutions to comply with
consumer laws and state and federal legislation requiring identity
theft protection. *2007 Annual CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security
Survey Media professionals can access broadcast and web-ready
videos and photos at Seagate's Broadcast Center --
http://seagate.mediaseed.tv/. About Seagate Seagate is the
worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard
disc drives and storage solutions, providing products for a
wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile
Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's
business model leverages technology leadership and world-class
manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to
its global customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market
leader in all markets in which it participates. The company is
committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and
reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information
storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at
http://www.seagate.com/. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave
logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the
United States and/or other countries. Momentus and Seagate Secure
are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate
Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United
States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered
trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When
referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one
billion bytes. Your computer's operating system may use a different
standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition,
some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other
functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate
reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or
specifications. DATASOURCE: Seagate CONTACT: Michael Hall of
Seagate, +1-831-439-2731, Web site: http://www.seagate.com/
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