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Seagate introduces full disk encryption laptop drives
Seagate announced earlier this week that it will be rolling out new full disk encryption (FDE) drives with capacities of up to half a terabyte, or 500GB. The Momentus drives come with software from McAfee, for optional encryption management such as policy management and security auditing. Consumers wanting to do away with the McAfee software, for better performance, can opt out by entering a BIOS password upon boot up in order to use it as usual. The third generation of this self-encrypting drive--the second generation came out just mid-2008--uses robust AES 128-bit encryption and has currently achieved FIPS 197 algorithm certification. The drive is available to OEMs, as well as to consumers and various organizations. Both corporate and government organizations are increasingly looking to encryption solutions such as FDE in the wake of major fiascoes, such as those involving the loss of laptops containing extremely sensitive information.
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