Seagate Secure(TM) Self-Encrypting Laptop Hard Drives Earn National Security Agency Qualification for National Security Systems

Seagate(R) Full Phonograph Record Encoding difficult thrusts ran into high criterion for securing
authorities data Scotts VALLEY, Calif., May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate
Technology (NYSE: ) today announced that the National Security Agency
(NSA) have qualified the Momentus(R) 5400 FDE.2 difficult drive, the storage
industry's landmark self-encrypting laptop computer personal computer difficult drive, for usage in
laptops and other computing machines deployed by U.S. authorities federal agencies and
contractors for national security purposes. With the NSA qualification, the Momentus 5400 FDE.2 difficult thrust meets
one of the peak criteria for securing sensitive information -- the
National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security
Policy (NSTISSP) #11. NSTISSP #11 defines demands for a broad variety
of merchandises that "satisfy a diverseness of security demands to include
providing confidentiality for data, as well as authenticating the
identities of people or organisations exchanging sensitive
information."* "The National Security Agency's makings of the Momentus 5400
FDE.2 difficult thrust for U.S. authorities bargain listings bears undeniable witnesser to
the enormous strength of the Seagate Secure(TM) portfolio of
self-encrypting disc thrusts in protecting sensitive information for
government, private endeavors and consumers alike," said Uncle Tom Major, vice
president of Seagate's Personal Storage Business Unit. "With the soaring
popularity of mobile computer science worldwide, organisations and consumers need
a simple, low-cost manner to procure consumer records, intellectual property
and other sensitive information stored on mobile devices." Lost or purloined mobile devices can be companies billions of dollars in
compromised intellectual property, lost concern because of reputation
damage, and redresses for misdemeanors of information privateness legislation, as well as
expose consumers to the high hazard of personal identity theft. According to a 2007
study** of U.S. organisations by The Ponemon Institute, lost and stolen
laptops and other mobile devices go on to be the most frequent cause of
data breaches, with almost half (49 percent) of the incursions tied to
these lacking devices. A 2008 study*** by the institute establish that encoding for laptop computers is
the most common and that "the usage of encoding is driven now more than than
ever by the demand to extenuate the effects of a possible information breach:
71 percentage rated this as the top ground for deploying encryption, up from
66 percentage in 2007." Ponemon research workers concluded that "the widespread use
of encoding -- from laptop computers to register waiters -- have already prompted many
organizations to get planning strategically." Seagate Secure(TM) Technology -- Locking Down Mobile, Desktop and Data
Center Information The Momentus 5400 FDE.2 difficult thrust is powered by Seagate Secure
technology, a groundbreaking security platform that couples strong, fully
automated hardware-based full-disk encoding with leading security-based
software applications to present centralized encoding key management,
multi- factor user hallmark and other capablenesses that aid lock
down personal computing machine and information centre storage. Seagate Secure technology
uses AES to encrypt all difficult thrust information transparently and
automatically at full interface velocity to forestall public presentation drags common
among traditional software system encoding products, giving organisations an
easy, cost-effective way to follow with the growth figure of information privacy
laws calling for the protection of consumer information using
government-grade encryption. The information security platform also do it easy
to repurpose and retire computing machines and difficult thrusts without compromising
sensitive information; all information stored on the thrust is rendered unreadable
by simply deleting the encoding key. The Seagate Secure portfolio of merchandises includes Momentus 5400 FDE.2
hard drives; Maxtor(R) BlackArmor(TM) difficult drives, delivering the strongest
commercially available security for external storage; Barracuda(R) FDE hard
drives, internal 3.5-inch thrusts for desktop PCs; and Cheetah(R) 15K.6 FDE,
the world's first self-encrypting difficult thrusts for mission-critical servers
and storage arrays. Learn more than about Seagate Secure engineering by visiting
. Last year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
the U.S. federal federal agency focused on promoting merchandise invention by
establishing technical criteria for authorities and business, certified the
Advanced Encoding Standard (AES) encoding algorithmic rule that powerfulnesses the
Momentus 5400 FDE.2 difficult drive. The 2.5-inch 5400-rpm Seagate drive,
designed to protect against unauthorised entree to information stored on
laptop PCs, even if they are lost or stolen, is the lone encrypting device
from a major difficult thrust shaper to win both NIST enfranchisement and the NSA
qualification. About Seagate Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, industry and
marketing of difficult phonograph record thrusts and storage solutions, providing merchandises for
a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile
Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business
model purchases engineering leading and world-class manufacturing to
deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its planetary customers,
with the end of being the time-to-market leader in all marketplaces in which it
participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products,
customer support and dependability to ran into the world's growth demand for
information storage. Seagate can be establish around the Earth and at
. *More information on NSTISSP #11 is available at
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**2007 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach; The Ponemon Institute
***2008 Annual Study: U.S. Enterprise Encoding Trends; The Ponemon
Institute
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