Phoenix Technologies Brings Encryption to Fujitsu Mobile HDDs
And the possibility for the notebook owner to remotely disable the drive
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on May 6, 2008 at 3:35 pmPhoenix Technologies Ltd. announced it is working with Fujitsu Limited to enable remote disk control and disk data protection for mobile computing environments equipped with Fujitsu’s new full disk encryption (FDE) 2.5" 7,200RPM SATA hard disk drive (HDD). With Phoenix FailSafe, the laptop or notebook owner can remotely disable the Fujitsu FDE drive in the laptop, thus ensuring ‘failsafe’ protection against data theft and personal information loss.
"Fujitsu’s new FDE technology delivers the industry’s strongest security method for mobile computing, while preserving a high level of performance," said Joel Hagberg, vice president, marketing and business development, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. "Our encryption capabilities ensure data on the disk drive is inaccessible to unauthorized users if a laptop is lost or stolen. By enabling users to remotely disable, enable or securely erase the drive in a laptop, the Phoenix Failsafe solution provides an added level of protection to further prevent any confidential information from being compromised."
Surendra Arora, vice president of business development at Phoenix Technologies, said, "We are committed to providing the best theft deterrence service and data protection solutions in the PC industry. Phoenix’s FailSafe theft-deterrence service will allow the PC owner to track, remotely disable and securely erase the Fujitsu disk drive. In the event of laptop theft, if the FailSafe agent pre-installed on the Fujitsu FDE HDD product is removed by the computer/data thief, the authorized owner will be able to remotely re-install the FailSafe agent in the compromised system and take further steps to ensure protection as well as recovery of the data on the laptop."
Phoenix FailSafe not only enables laptop owners to remotely protect and encrypt vital content stored on their laptops’ hard drives, it also provides the ability to locate/recover missing laptops and lost data as well as remotely ‘kill’ sensitive data or the device to avoid potential misuse.
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