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A company's data is one of its' most valuable assets. Stolen data can mean high customer notification costs, tarnished reputation, and a loss of customers. Unauthorized data exposure can occur anywhere – from the one-man IT “department” to the best-managed data center.

Most recognize that laptops can be lost or stolen. However, drives used in servers and storage arrays are also vulnerable to theft, loss or maintenance mix-ups.

• Despite the “protection” of the data center, 50,000 drives a day leave the data center1 and are routinely sent out for warranty repair, lease return, or disposal or are repurposed or sold. This is often an unrecognized and significant potential source of data breach.
• Entire servers are at risk from “Smash and Grab” theft from local storefronts – an event than can quickly put an SMB out of business.
  

Seagate Secure SED technology provides two key benefits in the enterprise:

• Instant Secure Erase: Cryptographically erases a drive, whether it’s 73GB or 2TB — in less than a second enabling secure drive return, disposal, or reuse.
• Auto-Lock: Automatically locks the drive and secures the data the moment a drive is removed from a system or a drive or system is misplaced or stolen.

Seagate is the first hard drive manufacturer to introduce Self Encrypting Drive (SED) security technology across its' entire enterprise line of hard drives. IBM, LSI and Intel are just a few of the companies actively building Seagate Secure, Self-Encrypting Drives into enterprise server and storage solutions.

Seagate's Self-Encrypting Drive technology provides government-grade data security helping ensure Safe Harbor for data privacy compliance without hindering IT efficiency. Strong enough for National Security, yet easy enough for the one-man IT “department,” SEDs simplify decommissioning and preserve hardware value for returns and repurposing by:

1. Eliminating the need to overwrite or physically destroy the drive.
2. Securing warranty and expired lease returns.
3. Enabling drives to be repurposed securely.

 

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