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February 17th, 2011 at 02:40pm
Under Storage
Quite frankly, my first thought was "Is that all?" when I read a press release from Seagate talking about them reaching this milestone. My second thought was that there were some weasel words about Opal compliance: Several major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are now qualifying Momentus SEDs that are compliant with the Trusted Computing Group’s [...]
Continue Reading Seagate sells one million self-encrypting drives
Tags: momentus, opal, seagate
By Ken Y-N
October 1st, 2010 at 04:09pm
Under Storage
An interesting bit of news from itBusiness.ca has been that Seagate’s Momentus range of self-encrypting hard drives have been awarded FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 certification, meaning that they can now sell these Trusted Computing Group Opal-compliant drives to US and Canadian federal agencies and other governmental bodies that require FIPS certification on the [...]
Continue Reading Seagate’s self-encrypting drive gets FIPS certification
Tags: fips, opal, seagate
By Ken Y-N
November 29th, 2008 at 12:10pm
Under Advocacy+ Storage
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 [...]
Continue Reading Buy TCG-based storage today
Tags: fujitsu, hitatchi, jon oltsik, seagate
By Ken Y-N
September 18th, 2008 at 02:12pm
Under Storage
From SearchSecurity comes the news that IBM are now offering hardware-based full disk encryption for customers using their System x servers. Their IBM System x VAULT, as it is known, leads the system manager through the encryption process, allowing one of four possible levels of security to be chosen, and costs around $1,200. How much [...]
Continue Reading Full disk encryption for IBM x servers
Tags: full disk encryption, ibm, seagate, x server, x vault
By Ken Y-N
June 24th, 2008 at 08:18am
Under Storage
I’ve previously highlighted Seagate’s encrypted drive but this article from the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) official blog looks at best practises for hardware encryption-based disk arrays. Two key documents from the TCG’s Storage Group are an application note from November 2007 entitled “Encrypting Drives in an Array Controller” and “Key Management Services Application Note”. These [...]
Continue Reading Encrypted storage and disk arrays
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By Ken Y-N
May 21st, 2008 at 04:33am
Under Storage
Business Wire recently republished a press release from Wave Systems on their presence at Dell’s “Future of Computing” roadshow travelling all over the USA. Their particular solution is using the Seagate Momentus FDE (full drive encryption) hard drive with Wave’s server software to enable such features as event logging and password recovery, by using the [...]
Continue Reading Wave touring with Dell to demonstrate hardware-based encryption
Tags: business wire, dell, seagate, wave
By Ken Y-N
April 28th, 2008 at 02:18pm
Under Storage
An interesting article was recently published by INFOSTOR, written by Dr Michael Willett, co-chair of the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Storage Working Group (SWG), and a senior director at Seagate Research. One of the drivers behind the SWG is that there is a definite move towards performing backups to disk rather than tape. In addition, [...]
Continue Reading Storage security and TCG
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By Ken Y-N
April 8th, 2008 at 01:09pm
Under TCG
With the RSA Conference in full swing at San Francisco, the security-related press releases are coming thick and fast. This time it is Seagate, with their new Cheetah series of self-encrypting hard drives. This drive series has Full Disk Encryption (FDE), spins at 15,600 rpm, and is suited for mission-critical servers and storage arrays. It [...]
Continue Reading Seagate Cheetah self-encrypting drive
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By Ken Y-N