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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 [...]
Continue Reading FDE, SED, FIPS and other abbreviations
Tags: fde, global security mag, sed
By Ken Y-N
August 23rd, 2008 at 03:46pm
Under Storage
With corporations worrying ever more about data loss from misplaced laptops, one great application of the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is for full disk encryption, which implements encryption as close to the disk hardware as possible. Toshiba have linked up with Wave Systems to use Wave’s EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager and Remote [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems and Toshiba link up on full disk encryption
Tags: embassy, fde, toshiba, wave
By Ken Y-N
August 12th, 2008 at 02:56pm
Under Storage
On the Blogs and Files blog I found an interesting post discussing Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on hard drives. First, Seagate’s FDE-supporting Cheetah 15K.6 drive, using specifications developed by the Storage Workgroup of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), will be used in enterprise-targeted drive arrays, as FDE is becoming a requirement in certain markets. In [...]
Continue Reading Full Disk Encryption is ecologically sound
Tags: ecology, fde
By Ken Y-N
March 24th, 2008 at 01:23pm
Under TCG
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) official blog recently described events at the Data Protection Summit in Irvine, CA, held on March 11th to 13th 2008. Around 300 people including enterprise IT, consultants, and vendors were in attendance. One particular focus of the TCG activities was the Mobile Encryption day, where the majority of speakers had [...]
Continue Reading TCG participates in the Data Protection Summit, Irvine, CA
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By Ken Y-N