Seagate Teams up with McAfee, Ships Self-Encrypting Drive

Powerful, easy-to-use notebook data security is increasingly important as the global adoption of mobile PCs continues to soar and more notebooks are used to store sensitive personal and business information. Lost or stolen notebooks can cost companies millions of dollars in compromised proprietary information and threaten consumers with the high cost of identity theft, yet many computers remain unprotected. According to the United States FBI, a notebook computer is stolen every 53 seconds and 97% are never recovered. Keeping all that in mind and to help you combat growing threats to mobile information, Seagate, is now shipping its self-encrypting notebook PC hard drives, now with up to 320GB of capacity.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator management system and McAfee’s endpoint encryption client will integrate with Seagate Momentus FDE hard drives to use the embedded hardware encryption, giving customers full, user-rich features and the total enterprise management required to secure notebook computers in heterogeneous environments.

All Momentus FDE drives feature a fast Serial ATA interface and built-in AES encryption, an AES government-grade encryption used to encrypt all hard drive information transparently and automatically.

As Seagate teams up with McAfee for such an important venture that may have the prospect of being lucrative for a large number of consumers, we are waiting for it as well.