Samsung and Wave Encrypt SSDs

April 20, 2009: In an industry first, Samsung and Wave Systems have teamed and brought full-disk encryption to solid state drives (SSDs), giving the bourgeoning technology robust security to match its performance.

Full disk encryption (FDE) has been a standard feature in many commercial laptop and desktop systems for a while now, however, as SSDs are rapidly gaining in popularity the need for similar levels of security is also growing.

Samsung’s 64, 128 and 256GB self-encrypting SSDs come with FDE and Wave’s EMBASSY management software, and are shipping to some OEMs now.

“Samsung has combined the tremendous performance advantages of solid state technology with integrated hardware encryption for drives designed especially for today’s ‘road warrior’ professionals,” said Jim Elliott, memory vice president, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. “Business users now get the best of performance and security in a single drive. ”

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