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SEDs 'make stolen data inaccessible'
Category: Data storage
14 November, 2008
IT managers who have relied on software-based security protection have been lucky if they have avoided an information breach, it has been noted.Writing on the Computer Technology Review, Michael Willet says over 50,000 hard drives are decommissioned and leave the data centre every day, while 90 per cent of such drives are readable, meaning sufficient steps are not being taken to prevent unauthorised access to data.
Furthermore, enterprises which use "self-encrypting drives (SEDs) on lost or stolen computers or data storage devices, the data is inaccessible to others. As a result, using SEDs avoids the need for costly disclosures as long as the data was encrypted", he claims.
And a disclosure of information such as company secrets, customer information and market strategies can lead to legal penalties, future business jeopardised and expensive consequences.
Moreover, PC World reports that full-disk encryption protects information on a hard drive, even if it is stolen; while providing a back up should a member of staff accidentally reveal more data then they needed to with a misconfigured file-sharing program.
