CREDANT Expands Its Portfolio with Full Disk Encryption

Protect data anytime, anywhere, anyhow – it's up to you, CREDANT's got it all covered

DALLAS/LONDON, April [20] 2010 - CREDANT Technologies, the market leader in endpoint data protection solutions, today announced it has added CREDANT FDE DriveManager to its portfolio. With this new addition, CREDANT gains the enviable position of offering its customers complete flexibility to protect data wherever it is, however they want in what ever manner they choose to meet their specific endpoint needs, varied as they may be - all managed from a central management console that gives enterprise level auditing and reporting capabilities essential to businesses today.

CREDANT FDE DriveManager fortifies the trusted Seagate Momentus® self-encrypting 2.5 inch hard drives with built-in full disk encryption. This fully automated self-encrypting disk protects organisations from data loss due to a stolen or lost computer through remote management, pre-boot strong authentication and remote destruction. With self-encrypting drives, user passwords are not stored in the drive memory so password signatures are totally inaccessible after computer shut down, further safeguarding the data from unauthorised users. Repurposing and retirement of computers and hard drives is easy and eliminates the risk of exposing sensitive information as administrators can send a device wipe message to erase all of the keys from the drive and prevent any access to the data – forever.

"Self-encrypting hard drives continue to gain momentum in the marketplace and for good reason," said Tom Major, Senior Vice President of Product Line Management & Sales Operations, at Seagate. "We are excited to be working with CREDANT to offer the market, and our mutual customers, a complete encryption platform they can use to protect their valuable data and ensure compliance with both data encryption and breach notification regulations as more of these laws are enacted to help protect sensitive consumer, business and government information."

"With the addition of FDE DriveManager, Seagate Momentus' self-encrypting drives, our portfolio enables customers to choose intelligent policy based data encryption at a device, user or group level; to choose software based full disk encryption, or to take advantage of the emergence of hardware based self encrypting drives, where the remote management, pre-boot strong authentication and remote destruction will aid in organisation's data protection needs, unique environments and specific circumstances" explains Chris Burchett, CREDANT's Chief Technology Officer and co-founder.

CREDANT FDE DriveManager provides centralised management to allow IT professionals to manage security policies, enforce compliance and produce management reports across multiple hardware configurations and operating systems. If preferred, it is also offered in a standalone mode that does not require a centralised management server.

In addition, CREDANT also confirmed the launch of CREDANT FDE for Windows. A highly scalable centralised policy-driven full disk encryption solution for PCs, laptops, notebooks and tablets that is easily deployed to provide unparalleled protection for data at rest or in use. Administered centrally, it provides remote management capabilities and extensive auditing and reporting features on devices deployed throughout the enterprise. The pre-boot authentication feature enforces policy-driven access control that is checked immediately when the hard drive powers up enabling the device to be locked at pre-boot if required, thereby preventing unauthorised users from logging on to the machine. As further security, an administrator can send a cryptographic erase message that disables the encryption keys destroying data on lost or stolen devices.

Based on experience with hundreds of successful deployments, CREDANT solutions achieve the right balance of protection and usability critical to a successful data security program deployment. The key is to manage risk with a solution that provides security and manageability that's appropriate - by now offering both software and hardware flavours of full disk encryption (FDE), in addition to our patented, policy based, data encryption solutions CREDANT has got it all covered.

About CREDANT Technologies

CREDANT Technologies is the market leader in endpoint data protection solutions. CREDANT's data security solutions mitigate risk, preserve customer brand, and reduce the cost of compliance, enabling business to "protect what matters." CREDANT Mobile Guardian is the only centrally managed endpoint data protection solution providing strong authentication, intelligent encryption, usage controls, and key management for data recovery. By aligning security to the type of user, device, and location, CREDANT permits the audit and enforcement of security policies across all computing endpoints. Strategic partners and customers include leaders in finance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and services. CREDANT has been recognized by Inc. magazine as the #1 fastest growing security software company in 2008 and 2007; was selected by Red Herring as one of the top 100 privately held companies and top 100 Innovators; and was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2005. Austin Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, Intel Capital (NASDAQ:INTC), and Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) are investors in CREDANT Technologies. For more information, visit http://www.credant.com