I asked Seagate’s Joni Clark what to think about when choosing a laptop hard drive. It’s more than just the obvious capacity choice. Things like performance, encryption and drop protection.
Check out Joni’s response in the video.
Sometimes you can get something for nothing. The Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm drive runs faster but uses no more power than [...]
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The “evil maid” hack can’t touch self-encrypting drives
There’s a new chink in the armor of software-based drive encryption – the Evil Maid Hack. Privacy Digest explains how it works.
Just like hacks before it (remember Cold Boot?), the Evil Maid doesn’t work on self-encrypting hard drives like those from Seagate. That’s because encryption is hard-wired into the drive and automatically locks it when power is removed. [...]
The National Archives lose a terabyte drive filled with sensitive data
The National Archives lost a terabyte disk drive filled with sensitive data from the Clinton administration, including Social Security numbers and Secret Service procedures.
Had this data been on a self-encrypting drive, we would not have heard of its loss. That’s because the data would never have been at risk.
Assuming the data was saved somewhere else, there would be [...]
Seagate Momentus arms Mobile Armor for military-grade data security
Mobile Armor provides data protection solutions for the U.S. military and other risk-averse data users.
The military uses PCs as much or more than any organization, of course. As you can imagine, preventing data loss, especially the “I wonder who saw it?” kinds of losses, is high on their list of requirements.
Seagate is a part of Mobile Armor’s Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) solutions. Seagate’s [...]
The biggest data breach yet?
Heartland Payment Systems disclosed a data breach that could eclipse the current record set by TJX in January 2007.
While not specifying the number of records that were compromised, Heartland’s systems were exposed for some period of time in 2008. Heartland processes more than 100 million card transactions a month.
According to Computerworld, what may be more ominous [...]
Mobile data security demands mobile encryption
Solving the “data on the loose” problem starts with safer loose data
Despite an almost daily cadence of news stories about exposed customer data, most IT departments seem resigned to the fact that their number might be called. It’s just fate, right? What are they supposed to do – ban thumb drives? Restrict notebook PCs to the office?
New products from [...]
McAfee takes self-encrypting PCs mainstream
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator adds self-encrypting PC drives to its bag of security tricks
There’s a security industry axiom that says “It’s better to place the guard next to the jewels.” With McAfeee’s latest move, it looks like the information security industry is taking that to heart by bringing self-encrypting disk drives (SED) into the mainstream mix of security [...]
UK data losses spread to prisons
Take the Oops factor out of the security equation with mobile encryption
The UK government’s data security woes continue, the latest a misplaced USB stick containing detailed data on 10,000 serious offenders -and all 84,000 prisoners in England. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, in charge of UK prisons, is the Embarrassed Minister of the Month when it comes to UK [...]
Security gaps in Deniable File Systems uncovered
DFS-hidden data can be found by Microsoft Vista, Word and Google Desktop
You may be in denial if you think a Deniable File System (DFS) will fully secure your data. So says Byte and Switch today, based on a study by British Telecom’s Bruce Schneier and a team of researchers from the University of Washington. They were [...]