Enterprise-class Security And Manageability For New Full Disk Encryption Hard Drives

摘要

WinMagic Inc., and Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. have claimed that their products together provide "comprehensive, enterprise-class and manageable security for data-at-rest". The companies' technologies - the WinMagic SecureDoc software and the Fujitsu full disk encryption (FDE) hard disk drive (HDD) technology - are said to provide an advanced security solution to protect data stored on desktop and notebook systems. The Fujitsu FDE HDD features encryption technology and advanced security functions built directly into the hardware. It is designed to address organizations' needs to securely and instantly make data on the drive inaccessible when redeploying or disposing of the physical hardware. The "advanced secure erase" feature immediately invalidates every piece of data by changing the in-drive encryption key. That process is said to take less than a second and to provide the same level of data invalidation as physically destroying the hard disk drive. Whether the laptop is lost or stolen, or an IT administrator uses the advanced secure erase feature, the data on the drive is, according to Fujitsu, not recoverable.