Posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Self-Encrypting Drive Standard Gains Momentum
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In January, the Trusted Computing Group published three storage encryption standards for laptops, enterprise storage, and software interoperability. Fujitsu, Hitachi, Seagate, and Toshiba support these standards and are already shipping self-encrypting drives. The dominoes are falling at an accelerating pace and that within two to three years, every device that ships with a hard drive or solid-state disk will offer self-encrypting drives. Chief information security officers, purchasing managers, management software vendors, and government agencies should plan for this inevitability.
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