June 7th, 2010 at 02:19pm Under Storage
BusinessWire recently published a press release from Hitachi on their new ultra-slim drives, a mere 7mm thick with a 2.5 inch platter, up to 320 GB capacity, and Trusted Computing Group’s Opal self-encrypting drive standard ready. Engadget also has a picture of said drive, but the hand holding it seems to be male in shape [...]
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May 21st, 2010 at 04:08pm Under Storage
The official Trusted Computing Group blog has an article regarding protecting your data with TCG Opal spec-compliance self-encrypting drives, an important practice given the cost of data loss. The case study covered in the article was Mazda, who found that a hardware-based solution had less of a performance overhead than their previous software-based solution, and [...]
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April 26th, 2010 at 04:24pm Under Storage
A recent press release from Origin Storage announced the release of their Enigma SED (Self-Encrypting Drive), which is based around an Opal-compliant 2.5" hard drive from Toshiba with some added-value on top that doesn’t seem to be described too clearly. I think it is that they also provide cloning software to allow existing drives to [...]
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April 2nd, 2010 at 03:00pm Under Storage
Browsing through Wikipedia, I came across some rather bizarre text on Hardware-based full disk encryption. A paragraph reads: Currently there is an effort by Microsoft, that has a software FDE product called Bitlocker to block TCG commands through their Windows Operating System. This effort is in the IEEE 1667 group that was founded by Microsoft [...]
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Tags: ieee 1667, opal, wikipedia
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March 24th, 2010 at 02:55pm Under Storage
A recent article from Sean Glynn of Credant Technologies on the Global Security Mag web site on various abbreviations and technical terms relating to data security. I try to spell out most technical terms when I use them here, but I’m sure I forget sometimes, so this is a useful backgrounder. However, I do have [...]
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Tags: fde, global security mag, sed
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March 2nd, 2010 at 05:28pm Under Storage
The official TCG blog recently published an extensive list of many of the available self-encrypting drives that follow the TCG’s Opal standard. As I’ve said a number of times before, self-encrypting drives is a no-brainer option, so with a list of four drive manufacturers and four vendors of management software there’s lots to choose from.
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Tags: opal
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February 13th, 2010 at 04:02pm Under Storage
Softex recently posted a press release about an upgrade to their software to handle self-encrypting drives and Intel’s new vPro technology. The self-encrypting drive standard supported is the Trusted Computing Group’s OPAL standard, and the Intel vPro stuff supports secure remote management of PCs, their self-encrypting drives, the Trusted Platform Module configuration, and many other [...]
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November 25th, 2009 at 04:02pm Under Storage
On the Zecurion blog, they looked at the recently-release Trusted Computing Group’s Opal specification for full disk encryption and came to the conclusion that if you’ve already got lots of hardware, replacing everything does not make financial sense, but instead a software solution like Zecurion’s own Zserver Storage should be used.
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September 26th, 2009 at 01:59pm Under Storage
According to this press release, Wave Systems will be demonstrating in conjunction with Dell and Lenovo at the Intel Developers Forum the use of Wave’s EMBASSY administration suite to remotely control self-encrypting drives on vPro-equipped hardware. Some of the things the EMBASSY Remote Administration Server can do are: network unlock of drives; tie particular PCs [...]
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Tags: embassy, intel, vpro, wave
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September 1st, 2009 at 03:33am Under Storage
Hitachi recently published a press release describing their new Ultra Fast Half Terabyte Mobile Hard Disk Drive. The specs for the Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 are 7200 RPM, 2.5-inch, 3Gb/s SATA interface, 0.69 watts power consumption at rest and 1.8 watts on read/write, 56% larger and 16% faster than its predecessor, and with hardware-based full disk [...]
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