Seagate To Encrypt Data on Hard Drives

Seagate Technology hopes its new security system for hard disk drives will become the most formidable barrier between the computer and data thieves.

The worlds largest hard disk drive manufacturer said its DriveTrust technology, will be announced Monday, every bit automatic encryption of data stored in the hard disk, and requires users to have a key, or password, and then have access to disk drives .

Technology, and protection of the hard drive - in the coffers of computer data - Unlike most security products introduced in the past few years. These products are usually on the computer network firewall, encryption, data files or operating system to defend the invasion.

Protect the hard drive itself provides another layer of protection, and may prevent thieves purloining confidential information from lost or stolen laptop. Wrong laptops cost, government agencies and companies hundreds of millions of dollars, and the sensitive data - including customers credit card or social security numbers - the street, it is possible in the hands of criminals.

"I believe that other companies will be to follow, but will also become an industry standard, and said:" John Monroe, research vice president at Gartner company laptops and hard drives drivetrust based on user will be prompted to enter your password and then activated machines. If there is no password, the hard drive will be useless, Seagate officials said.

Even data recovery experts, the transfer will not be able to help if a password is lost, said Scott is 125 votes, a senior product marketing manager at Seagate.

"This is the trade of a well-off: You keep the back door or the introduction of the loopholes to bypass security, then you have created vulnerability," 125 votes.

Seagate said it has implemented technology into one of its drives, notebook computers, and the other is digital video recorders.

Drivetrust Although it is proprietary, Seagate may eventually allow other storage company turned it into their own products. Seagate will provide development tool sets for other companies to create an additional layer of security work drivetrust.

"We believe the entire industry will benefit from it," said 125 votes.