Self-encrypting hard drives are those with encryption technology built into the drive's controller ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit). They are designed to improve the security of data by ...

Seagate Technology says it’s adding a self-encrypting capability to its Cheetah 15K disk drive based on a specification promulgated by the Trusted Computing Group. The TCG Storage Architecture Core ...

One-third of security professionals who handle encryption don't understand self-encrypting hard disk drives. In particular, they're unsure whether the drives are better or worse than software-based ...

IT shops everywhere are becoming grimly aware of the explosive growth in lost and stolen data from businesses. As many as 10 percent of laptop computers are lost or stolen each year, and most of those ...

Having figured out that the existence of encryption software doesn't actually mean that such systems will be installed and used, hard drive maker Seagate has decided to offer a self-encrypting hard ...

Seagate Technology LLC today announced it is shipping its Seagate self-encrypting drive (SED) across its portfolio of enterprise-class hard drives. The hard drives included with the self-encrypting ...

LynuxWorks, Inc. recently announced its continued collaboration with Wave Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:WAVX) on the use of a self-encrypting drive (SEDs) with the LynxSecure separation kernel and ...

Companies relying on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to secure data stored on their employees’ laptops should be aware that this technology is not immune to attack and should carefully consider whether ...

The company's new Barracuda ES.2 hard drives with a serial-attached SCSI (SAS) interface offer a 135-percent boost in performance over SATA hard drives, said Henry Fabian, executive director of ...

Flash memory storage devices are a convenient way to transfer data from place to place, but they’re also a big security risk if lost. Today, Samsung Electronics and Wave Systems are launching new ...

Toshiba joins the self-encrypting hard drive march forward with its new Toshiba Self-Encrypting Drives series (models MKxx61GSYG). These SED drives won’t quite self-destruct like in “Mission: ...