Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Thursday, 13 November 2008 08:39
Opinion and Analysis
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Tom Major, vice president of the Personal Computer Business Unit at Seagate said: “Delivering easy-to-use notebook security that also is cost-effective requires leading partnerships and technologies.
“Seagate is pleased to be teaming with industry leaders to simplify security management for our customers and providing our OEM and channel customers with the world’s fastest self-encrypting hard drive.”
Then Seagate explains its deal with McAfee to simply the management of secure notebooks, and noting that “businesses of all sizes and shapes are turning to hard drive-based encryption solutions to protect the important information that ensures their competitive edge.”
McAfee isn’t the only provider of notebook hard drive security software for the enterprise – the press release notes that “SECUDE International, Wave Systems and WinMagic Data Security” are also working with Seagate.
However McAfee is offering its “McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) management system and McAfee’s endpoint encryption client” which will integrate with Seagate Momentus FDE hard drives “to use the embedded hardware encryption, giving customers full, user-rich features and the total enterprise management required to secure notebook computers in heterogeneous environments.”
Tony Jennings, vice president Strategic Partnerships at McAfee said that: “McAfee provides leading enterprise-class, powerful encryption and strong access control technologies. By teaming with Seagate on its new encrypting Momentus drive, we are extending additional protection tools to our customers.”
Seagate and McAfee tout ePO as allowing “organisations worldwide [to] leverage Seagate Momentus FDE hard drives in heterogeneous environments to secure notebook information.”
It also lets “IT security personnel can enforce policy management globally, enable token authentication and end-user password recovery, and aid organisations to prove that a missing notebook was encrypted at the time it was lost or stolen – a requirement for compliance with many data-privacy laws.”
So, what about consumers and organisations that want “simple-to-use notebook security”?
Please read on to page 3.
