Security tools for mission-critical enterprise data drives the need for
Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 FDE hard drives
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RSA CONFERENCE
-- Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) today introduced a new breed of hard
drive, the Cheetah(R) 15K.6 FDE (Full Disk Encryption) disc drive family,
the world's first self-encrypting hard drives for mission-critical servers
and storage arrays. As part of the award-winning Cheetah family, the
industry-standard in performance and reliability in data centers, the new
Cheetah 15K.6 FDE hard drive now also encrypts data as well. And that
encryption goes anywhere the hard drive goes -- whether it is moved,
stored, or retired.
"The data breaches widely reported in the media generally focus on
stolen laptops and PCs, but people forget about the staggering amount of
information leaving the data center daily," said Sherman Black, senior vice
president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business.
"Equipment and systems with hard drives inside are continuously being
retired, relocated or repaired and there's often little thought given to
properly disposing of the data they contain before they leave the data
center. A recent investigation showed that 50% of the drives returned for
servicing by customers contained readable sectors. If you assume that an
average system's lifecycle is three to five years that suggests that more
than 50 thousand enterprise drives are leaving data centers daily
worldwide. If only half of those hard drives are readable, that's at least
2,500TB per day of exposed data available in the open market. The
increasing flow of exposed sensitive data ought to be a serious concern to
CIO's everywhere."
Compared to other encryption technologies, self-encryption within the
hard drive brings significant performance, management, and security
benefits for users. Since the encryption engine is in the drive's
controller ASIC, encryption is transparently fast and performance
automatically scales with every drive added to a data center. Because there
is no performance cost associated with encrypting more data, there is no
need to make fine-grained decisions as to what data to protect -- which can
eliminate the need for data classification. Self-encryption requires no
change to the OS, applications, or databases. Instantaneous Key-Erase(TM)
technology, a standard on all Seagate FDE hard drives, facilitates quick
and secure removal, whether for repurposing, returning for service, or
disposal.
Leading analysts, standards bodies, and major storage providers have
closely evaluated and concluded that self-encrypting drives deliver
critical benefits for data center information security.
Gartner:
"Many organizations are considering drive-level security for its
simplicity in helping secure sensitive data through the hardware lifecycle
from initial setup, to upgrade transitions and disposal," said Eric
Ouellet, research vice president, Secure Business Enablement, Gartner.
"Hard drive disposal in particular has always been one of the most
challenging elements of the data security lifecycle. Even with secure
disposal processes in place, misplacement, mislabeling and theft still do
occur which can result in significant losses, possible penalties and fines.
Eliminating the risk of compromise from the source is one approach that can
significantly reduce the complexity of managing sensitive data."
IBM:
"Enterprise customers today, especially in the financial services
sector, have a keen interest in protecting data-at-rest. Natively securing
data in the storage drive without any system performance degradation is the
next frontier in truly securing data and storage media that eventually
leaves the data center," said Robert Cancilla, vice president of Disk
Systems, IBM. "Introduced over a year ago, IBM's self encrypting tape
solutions, featuring key management software, continue to address this
security priority without the traditional impact to I/O performance, while
simplifying encryption key management. We're excited about working with
Seagate to bring this model to our disk offerings."
LSI:
"With the continued headlines about data breaches and emerging
government mandates, the need for data-at-rest encryption has come front
and center," said Phil Bullinger, executive vice president, Engenio Storage
Group, LSI. "By encrypting at the drive level, users can potentially
eliminate application impact and reduce worry about drives being lost,
stolen or repurposed. LSI is pleased to be working with other industry
leaders to drive critical developments in standards-based encryption
technology."
Trusted Computing Group:
"Full drive encryption enabled in hardware and based on the open
standards created by the Trusted Computing Group with Seagate's leadership
can give administrators and users confidence that data will be encrypted
quickly, easily and always," noted Brian Berger, Trusted Computing Group
marketing work group chair. "As demonstrated by the rapidly increasing
number of lost, stolen or hacked drives, encryption in hardware really is
the most effective solution to help ensure the security of at-rest
mission-critical information. Otherwise, corporations potentially face
millions or worse in government fines, lost business, lost goodwill and
undermining of other corporate relationships."
As a complementary solution for data protection of non-encrypted drives
that leave the data center, the Seagate Recovery Services division recently
announced its Data Erasure suite of products that utilize a series of
advanced, defense-industry rated and approved algorithms to completely and
permanently erase all data from a disk drive to ensure that proprietary and
sensitive information does not get into the wrong hands. For more
information, please contact a Seagate Recovery Services expert at
800-475-0143 or visit http://services.seagate.com/srs.
Details about the Cheetah 15K.6 FDE Family of Hard Drives
Available in capacities of 450GB, 300GB, and 147GB, the Cheetah 15K.6
family includes Seagate PowerTrim(TM) technology which dynamically
optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of activity. The Cheetah
15K.6 FDE family offers the highest 3.5-inch hard drive reliability in the
industry at 1.6 million hours MTBF (0.55% AFR), a choice of Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces, and a five-year limited
warranty. The Cheetah 15K.6 FDE drive is shipping to OEM suppliers this
quarter.
Encryption Technology at RSA
Seagate will be conducting a number of demonstrations at the RSA
Conference this week (booth #1448) to showcase its enterprise, notebook,
and external hard drive solutions. In addition, Seagate has teamed with
Wave Systems (booth #728) and the Trusted Computing Group (booth #2723) to
jointly conduct client and server demonstrations. For more information
about the RSA Conference program, visit:
http://www.rsaconference.com/2008/US/home.aspx
Details on FDE security in whitepapers, podcasts, and webcasts can be
found at: http://www.fdeSecurityLeaders.com.
About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and
marketing of hard disc drives and storage solutions, providing products for
a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile
Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business
model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to
deliver industry- leading innovation and quality to its global customers,
with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all markets in which it
participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products,
customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for
information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at
http://www.seagate.com.
Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks
of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries.
Cheetah, Key-Erase and PowerTrim are either trademarks or registered
trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in
the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or
registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When
referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion
bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer's
operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a
lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for
formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data
storage. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for
illustrative purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various
factors, including file size, file format, features and application
software. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product
offerings or specifications.
SOURCE Seagate Technology
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CONTACT:
David Szabados of Seagate Technology,
+1-831-439-2859, david.szabados@seagate.com
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