Hardware Encryption for Portable Drives

May 1, 2008: Data backup and disaster recovery specialist CMS Products is showing off a new feature in its BounceBack Professional Disaster Recovery software that enables external, hardware-encrypted disks to be uniquely recognised.

To be debuted at Interop 2008, the software enables an ATA password to be set on an external drive when it is identified.

Once set, the password is consistent with the encoding and locking method supported within the ATA drive locking feature of the system’s BIOS, enabling a bare metal recovery from a system drive failure while retaining the drive’s encryption characteristics and security access.

CMS Products expects this BIOS-compatible ATA password feature to greatly enhance the adoption of hardware encrypted disk drives for use in external applications.

“Data encryption provided within the electronics of a disk drive is the wave of the future,” said Gary Streuter, Vice President of Marketing for CMS Products. “It is seamless to the user and provides the confidence that important data will not be compromised in the event that a computer or external disk drive is lost or stolen.”

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