Seagate ST9500421AS Drive Management and Data Security the Easy Way

You can do drive management the hard way or the easy way—but you

have to do it.

Drives come to the end of their useful life and have to be destroyed.

Or they require long-term storage. Or they have to be returned for repairs.

Or degaussed. Or used for a new purpose. Or sold on eBay. Or—

You get the idea. Managed.

Drive management is a big headache for IT departments and a big potential

source of data security breaches. As it’s usually practiced, drive management

involves many steps and many people. It can be costly, prone to human errors

and hard to audit. You may have strict data management policies, but they

can be difficult to enforce and can inhibit employee productivity.

That’s data management the hard way. Fortunately there is also an easy way:

self-encrypting hard drives.

The beauty of self-encrypting drives is that the data on them is scrambled and

impossible to access without proper authentication. Thus no matter who gets

hold of them, the data is unavailable—secure.

Remember, when we talk about drive management, we’re not only talking

about an IT headache. At a deeper level, we’re talking about data security.

If you didn’t care who saw the data on your drives, you wouldn’t need drive

management policies other than for theft prevention. But so much data these

days is sensitive for so many different reasons that data security is essential.

The problem is that all digital data is created and stored at some point in time

on a hard drive that will eventually leave your control.

Without designed-in, hardware-based security at the core of where all digital

data lives, you can never truly be digitally secure.

Seagate provides that designed-in, hardware-based security in its self-

encrypting hard drives for laptop PCs. The Seagate

®

Momentus

®

7200 FDE

drive delivers up to 320 GB of secure digital storage using award-winning

Seagate Secure

™

technology. The enterprise management features of that

technology enable self-encrypting drives to interface with management

software for easy enterprise deployments. All data is automatically encrypted

when it’s written to the drive.

Drive Management and

Data Security the Easy Way

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