Strong Awareness for Opal Specification for Self-Encrypting Drives
The past year has brought strong awareness for the TCG's Opal specification for self-encrypting drives
Regulations such as HITECH and HIPAA have driven widespread adoption, while raising new questions on how to manage an encryption deployment to both protect the data, and create the audit trail required for proof of compliance to show a laptop's encryption was turned on and active at the time it was lost or stolen (critical to the Safe Harbor clause and avoiding oid hefty fines and public disclosure mandates).
This week, Network Computing magazine's Reviews Lab looks under the hood, performing the industry's first in-depth review of a complete self-encrypting drive deployment. Editor Mike Fratto provides a security veteran's perspective, with a mixed-environment test scenario involving three TCG member companies' products: self-encrypting drives from both Seagate and Samsung, managed by Wave Systems' EMBASSY Trust Suite (centralized IT administration for deploying and managing PC clients secured with Trusted Computing technologies).
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