Nov. 10 CA-Seagate-McAfee
Seagate Ships Self-Encrypting Drive Easy Enough for Consumers to Install
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Seagate
(Nasdaq: STX) today announced sweeping advances in its global push to help
secure notebook computer information from theft or loss. To combat growing
threats to mobile information, Seagate, the world leader in storage solutions,
is now shipping its groundbreaking, self-encrypting notebook PC hard drives,
now with up to 320GB of capacity, to the worldwide distribution channel, with
500GB models coming soon. Additionally, Dell is now shipping a notebook with a
160GB self-encrypting hard drive. McAfee is set to provide software for the
enterprise-wide management of notebooks with Seagate Secure(TM) hard drives.
Powerful, easy-to-use notebook data security is increasingly important as
the global adoption of mobile PCs continues to soar and more notebooks are
used to store sensitive personal and business information. Lost or stolen
notebooks can cost companies millions of dollars in compromised proprietary
information and threaten consumers with the high cost of identity theft, yet
many computers remain unprotected. According to the United States FBI, a
notebook computer is stolen every 53 seconds and 97% are never recovered*.
The new Momentus(R) FDE (full-disk encryption) notebook hard drives,
5400- and 7200-rpm models with capacities of up to a half-terabyte, deliver
powerful protection to help guard against unauthorized access to information
on lost or stolen notebook computers. Part of the Seagate Secure family of
self-encrypting drives, the Momentus FDE drives feature government-grade
encryption that delivers powerful security for confidential customer or
corporate information on executive notebook computers, critical customer data
on field sales and customer support notebook PCs, and sensitive information on
personal notebooks.
"Delivering easy-to-use notebook security that also is cost-effective
requires leading partnerships and technologies," said Tom Major, vice
president of the Personal Compute Business Unit at Seagate. "Seagate is
pleased to be teaming with industry leaders to simplify security management
for our customers and providing our OEM and channel customers with the world's
fastest self-encrypting hard drive."
Businesses of all sizes and shapes are turning to hard drive-based
encryption solutions to protect the important information that ensures their
competitive edge. Papa Gino's, a Dedham, Massachusetts-based restaurant
chain, has deployed approximately 80 self-encrypting notebook computers for
its workers since last year and has its sights set on using the newest secure
notebooks.
"With these hardware-based security solutions only the right people get
access to the right information with the best performance and the lowest
price," said Chris Cahalin, manager of Network Operations at Papa Gino's.
McAfee Teams with Seagate to Simplify Management of Secure Notebooks
McAfee joins a growing list of security software providers -- including
SECUDE International, Wave Systems and WinMagic Data Security -- that are
teaming with Seagate to help secure notebook PCs. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
management system and McAfee's endpoint encryption client will integrate with
Seagate Momentus FDE hard drives to use the embedded hardware encryption,
giving customers full, user-rich features and the total enterprise management
required to secure notebook computers in heterogeneous environments.
"McAfee provides leading enterprise-class, powerful encryption and strong
access control technologies," said Tony Jennings, vice president Strategic
Partnerships at McAfee. "By teaming with Seagate on its new encrypting
Momentus drive, we are extending additional protection tools to our
customers."
Through McAfee ePO, organizations worldwide can leverage Seagate Momentus
FDE hard drives in heterogeneous environments to secure notebook information.
IT security personnel can enforce policy management globally, enable token
authentication and end-user password recovery, and aid organizations to prove
that a missing notebook was encrypted at the time it was lost or stolen -- a
requirement for compliance with many data-privacy laws.
Seagate Delivers Strong, Simple-to-Use Notebook Security for Consumers and
Organizations
Seagate Secure hard drives are simple and easy for consumers and
organizations to use. Individual computer users who are not subject to
corporate policies and regulatory compliance, don't need multi-user encryption
management and want to protect personal and other sensitive information can
easily deploy a notebook with a Momentus FDE hard drive, which installs as
easily as a traditional drive. Once installed, the user simply enters a BIOS
password, then logs on as usual, and the security is in place. The
hardware-based encryption engine delivers security without the overhead -- no
bootup delays, no system slowdowns -- and the BIOS automatically authenticates
the user for transparent security.
For organizations requiring high strength authentication and a simple way
to meet state and federal consumer-privacy laws, Momentus FDE HD -- the
industry's first hard drive with built-in encryption -- can be deployed in
notebook fleets to enable secure disposal and repurposing of drives and
notebooks; security audits; password escrow; pre-boot authentication in the
form of biometrics, passwords and smart cards; and simple centralized
management.
Now shipping is the Momentus 5400 FDE.3 hard drive with capacities of
320GB and 160GB and 8MBs of cache, as is Momentus 7200 FDE, Seagate's first
high-performance (7200 RPM) self-encrypting notebook drive, with capacities of
320GB and 160GB and a 16MB cache. Seagate's Momentus 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM
self-encrypting hard drives in capacities up to 500GB are scheduled to begin
shipping early next year. All Momentus FDE drives feature a fast Serial ATA
interface and built-in AES encryption, an AES government-grade encryption used
to encrypt all hard drive information transparently and automatically.
The Seagate Secure family is powered by a robust security platform that
combines strong, fully automated hardware-based security with a programming
foundation that makes it easy to add security-based software applications for
organization-wide encryption key management, multi-factor user authentication
and other capabilities that help lock down digital information at rest.
Seagate Secure hard drives are the only other hardware-based encryption
solutions that deliver both AES government-grade security and centralized
notebook security management. The drives aid government, healthcare,
education, banking and financial institutions to comply with consumer laws and
state and federal legislation requiring identity theft protection.
*2007 Annual CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey
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About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing
of hard disc drives and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range
of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer
Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business model leverages
technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver
industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the goal
of being the time-to-market leader in all markets in which it participates.
The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support
and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage.
Seagate can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com.
Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of
Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Momentus
and Seagate Secure are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate
Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or
other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the
property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity,
one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes. Your computer's operating
system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower
capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and
other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate
reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or
specifications.
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