Hard drive encrypts data itself

Seagate Technology hopes its new security solution for hard drives will become an effective barrier between user information and those who look at it.

The world's largest hard drive maker said its DriveTrust technology will automatically encrypt every bit of data stored inside and require users to have a new password to access it.

This hard drive protection technology is different from all the security products that have been available for years. Usually, they only erect a firewall around the computer network, encrypt data files or protect the operating system from intrusions.

Source: trygve However, putting encryption on the hard drive will increase security to a new level and can prevent thieves from stealing confidential data from more efficiently lost laptops. Laptops stolen from US government agencies have recently caused the country to lose millions of dollars and push sensitive information (credit card numbers, social security card numbers) of millions of people into the hands. bad guy.

" I believe other companies will adopt this technology and it will become the new standard of security industry ," Gartner research vice president John Monroe predicts about DriveTrust's future.

Laptop models with DriveTrust hard drives will force users to enter the password before booting the device. Without the password, the hard drive would become useless, the Seagates officials said.

" Even data recovery experts can't help it once the password is lost, " said Scott Shimomura, Seagate's product marketing manager. Now Seagates has deployed this technology for a model of laptop hard drives and a model of hard drives for handheld video cameras.

Although DriveTrust is still a proprietary technology, Seagate will likely sell technology licenses to other storage companies in the future. " I believe the entire storage industry will benefit from this, " Shimomura said.

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