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Seagate on Monday announced what it called “sweeping advances” in its efforts to secure laptop information. Its solution is self-encrypting laptop hard drives with up to 320GB of capacity. The company said 500GB models are coming soon. Dell will be the first computer maker to ship a laptop with Seagate’s 160GB self-encrypting hard drive. And McAfee will provide software for enterprise-wide management of laptops with Seagate secure hard drives. A Laptop Stolen Every Minute “Delivering easy-to-use notebook security that also is cost effective requires leading partnerships and technologies,” said Tom Major, vice president of the personal compute business unit at Seagate. “Seagate is pleased to be teaming with industry leaders to simplify security management for our customers and providing our OEM and channel customers with the world’s fastest self-encrypting hard drive.” Laptop data security is becoming more important in the midst of rampant global adoption of mobile PCs, especially considering a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds and 97 percent are never recovered, according to the FBI. Laptops often contain sensitive personal and business information, and lost or stolen laptops can cost companies millions of dollars in compromised proprietary information and threaten consumers with identity theft. Seagate’s new Momentus FDE (full-disk encryption) laptop hard drives, 5400- and 7200-rpm models with capacities of up to a half terabyte, aim to guard against unauthorized access to information. The Momentus FDE drives feature government-grade encryption. Data Privacy Law Compliance McAfee is providing its ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) management system and endpoint encryption client to Seagate for its Momentus FDE hard drives. The companies said this integration will give customers user-rich features and enterprise management capabilities that IT administrators need to secure laptop computers. “McAfee provides leading enterprise-class, powerful encryption and strong access-control technologies,” said Tony Jennings, vice president of strategic partnerships at McAfee. “By teaming with Seagate on its new…
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