Seagate serves up Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drives
There isn’t an organization, large or small, that does not face the threat of data spilling or leaking. Seagate Technology has devised the Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drive with SED option for enterprise-class hard drives. Savvio 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Cheetah 15K.7 and Constellation drives come in the Seagate Secure offering.
Industries in healthcare, insurance, banking and others deal with confidential client information that is always under threat of theft and malignant or accidental leaks. IT professionals face the consequences of loss of business, revenue and intangible assets like goodwill. 90% of drives returned for repair purposes, i.e. 50,000 drives and terabytes of readable information face risk of data breaches. Seagate has stepped in to provide this kind of much needed security with their SEDs.
“Using an Intel server board, such as Intel Server Board S5520HC, with a new Intel RAID Controller RS2BL080 and Seagate’s Self-Encrypting Drives, allows data-at-rest to be natively secure at the disk drives themselves. This is a smart and easy way to help ensure that intellectual property remains protected,” remarked David Brown, general manager, Channel Server Products, Intel.
This encryption technology ensures that cipher text remains hidden and the drive locks out anyone without proper authorization. Each drive has an encryption system that works at the same interface speed as its host drive, and there are no scalability problems either. SEDs scale linearly, leaving no room for single points of failure or bottlenecks. The encryption key need not be kept in escrow as it is safeguarded in the drive itself.
“LSI worked closely with Seagate to deliver industry-first support for SEDs on the new 6GB/s LSI MegaRAID 9200 series controller cards,” elaborated Tom Kodet, manager of Channel Product Marketing, LSI. “MegaRAID controllers with LSI SafeStore Encryption Services for local key management make deploying Seagate SEDs so simple and cost-effective that even small and medium businesses can now afford a government-grade security solution.”
The TCG consisting of over 50 companies which include all hard drive makers have adopted the security protocol that supports drive-level FDE. The IEEE 1619.3 is set to establish strategic management standards that ensure interoperability. Seagate has devised this security system in collaboration with LSI and Intel. The companies have started packaging TCG based local key management and 6GB/s SAS technology with their server solutions and controllers that are interoperable with Seagate SEDs and VARs. These are believed to be good enough for national security but easy to operate by a single IT professional at the same time.
The price rate of the SED has not yet been revealed.
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