Buy TCG-based storage today

Posted by Ken Y-N on November 29th, 2008 at 12:10pm

Jon Oltsik of CNet recently published what amounts to a call to action to security professionals to start requesting the purchase of hard drives supporting disk-level encryption. At the moment Fujitsu, Hitachi and Seagate offer such drives, with the usual features of 256-bit encryption, half a terabyte of storage, and up to 16 megabytes of on-board cache memory. He says security professionals should:

• Embrace the technology
• Push vendors on Trusted Computing Group (TCG) storage encryption standard support
• Examine ways to use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
• Not wait for Intel vPro.

He also highlights one other additional benefit of drive-based encryption – just delete the key and your data is as good as erased, no need to scrap the drive, and it can be reused within the organisation worry-free.

Read the full post here.

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