Kingston: Optional TCG Opal 1.0 Compliant SSD

Kingston Digital, Inc. announced a version of its SSDNow KC300 that allows corporations and organizations the ability to manage the drive.

The custom Kingston KC300 SSD is compliant with the Opal specification of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).

The TCG Opal 1.0 compliant KC300 is for companies implementing centralized management software to manage security policies, password recovery, compliance logging, automatic updates and user creation/deletion. The self-encrypting drive provides organizations with strong, easy-to-use and performance built-in security. The custom KC300 SSD is designed to work with enterprise management applications including WinMagic SecureDoc, Wave Embassy and McAfee Endpoint Encryption for PC (EEPC).

“As SSDs become more common in businesses and organizations, many of our enterprise customers are now looking into managing these drives in the workforce,” said Ariel Perez, SSD business manager, Kingston. “We are proud to offer a version of our top-selling KC300 SSD with the ability to be managed by the most popular endpoint software applications to give companies flexibility and peace of mind to keep work data secure.”

The KC300 with TCG Opal is available in 60GB, 120GB and 240GB capacities. It is backed by a three-year warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability.

Kingston has internally tested interoperability on following platforms:

WinMagic:

• Server – SecureDoc Enterprise Server 6.2.0.179
• Client – SecureDoc Control Center 6.2.0.179

Wave Embassy:

• Server – Embassy Remote Administration Server 2.9.5.108
• Client – Embassy Security Center 2.10.2.135

McAfee:

• Server – ePolicy Orchestrator 5.0.1
• Client – Endpoint Encryption for PC 7.0