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  • Origin Storage 10:44 on 29/07/2011 Permalink | Reply
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    Sun, Sand, Sea and Security Survey 2011 

    Work obsessed Brits abroad – 73% of workers check emails whilst on holiday
    And a further 62% admit their boss expects to be in touch with them whilst enjoying the summer sun.

    London (UK), July 2011: Bags packed, flights booked and foreign currency in their pockets. The workforce might be jetting off but they’re definitely not leaving the daily grind behind. Instead –according to a survey conducted by the secure storage specialist Origin Storage – of 1,000 office workers in the City of London, a whopping 73% of workers will check in with the office, whilst on holiday. The results also show that over 50% of those planning a summer break abroad will remain in contact with the office every day to ensure things stay on track during their absence, by checking email accounts and text. Of this group, 32% check their emails more than once a day and if you’re the boss, it seems you never truly rest as 83% admitted that they will be in touch with their offices throughout their entire vacation.

    Key Highlights :

    • 73% of workers phone, text or email their places of work during their holiday of which 54% will check emails at least once a day and 32% more  than once a day!
    • 41% take mobile devices on holiday for work purposes
    • 62% expect their employers to contact them whilst away on holiday
    • 44% of respondents feel that being contactable gives them job security
    • 51% of laptops are left totally unsecured without even a password for protection
    • Only 26% of these laptops will be encrypted

    Paranoid or Laid Back – which are you?
    We are divided. 39% of our sample group felt less stressed after checking emails whilst another 39% admitted checking their emails would leave them more stressed.
    22% are undecided.

    Over 50% of respondents have no security on laptops at all!
    In a worrying new statistic, 51% of those storing work on their laptops are doing so without any security whatsoever with not even a password for protection! Let’s hope they’re not left behind at the airport, in a café or on the beach.

    From the horse’s mouth:
    Jane, City PA from Harpenden:”My director feels he can contact me at any time for the most inane of queries, ‘Where is the contacts folder?’ or ‘What time did you book me on my flight to Geneva?’ and I feel it’s an invasion of my privacy. I was even called off the beach by the hotel reception because my mobile was not picking up signal so my boss called the hotel directly.”
    Mike, CEO from Barnes: “I absolutely expect to contact my staff when on holiday. If they don’t want the job, there are thousands who do. Myself included, can we really afford not to work all the hours in this economic climate? I think not. I know I feel better knowing that things are ticking over nicely whilst I’m away so I don’t come back to an unmanageable workload.”
    Speaking on these results, Andy Cordial, MD of Origin Storage concludes, “We seem to have changed to a nation of workaholics. Only 23% (a jump from the survey conducted just 8 months ago from 35%) of our respondents have no contact whatsoever with work during their holiday which puts them firmly in the minority. Although on the surface this may seem like a good trend, especially for cash struck organisations, we deal with the aftermath from these industrious workers when company secrets have gone AWOL. The reality is that when corporate information is accessed from a mobile device, whether it’s personal or company owned, and it’s misplaced there are consequences”.

    Cordial continues, “Who is to blame? Is it the employee who just can’t let go or the employer for making them feel that they have to be accessible in the first place? Regardless of why it’s happening, our advice to the corporate world is: if you expect to contact your staff while away then it is down to you to secure their devices. Especially as the Information Commissioner’s Office are under pressure to flex its muscle and fine up to £500K for data breaches. Take the opportunity to re-evaluate your security – especially of your mobile devices, and perhaps invest in some holiday insurance of your own.”

    This survey was carried out amongst 1000 city workers by interviewing them at London Bridge and Monument station commuter platforms during July 2011

     

  • Origin Storage 17:16 on 09/07/2011 Permalink | Reply
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    SSD price fall welcomed 

     

    News that a 512 gigabyte SSD (solid state drive) has fallen in price to under a thousand dollars in the US has been welcomed by Andy Cordial, managing director of Origin Storage.
    Acording to Cordial – who heads the secure storage systems product company – pricing has always been perceived as something of an obstacle to the adoption of SSDs and – while solid state drives attract a premium over magnetic hard drives – the advantages are significant.”We are now starting to see corporates adopting SSDs for the operating system, basic programs and critical systems data, alongside a larger magnetic hard drive for data storage. This gives companies the advantage of rapid boot up times and, interestingly enough, by moving the SSD to a read-only setting, higher levels of security against system problems,” he said.”By storing the customised set-up files for a PC on the magnetic main drive, even if the worst happens and the main drive is trashed by malware, the IT department can simply swap the magnetic drive out and, with no appreciable configuration changes, the SSD will boot the PC up as normal,” he added.

    The Origin Storage MD went on to say that the real advantage of SSDs to a company with several hundred PCs is the time saving in terms of bootup time.

    If, for example, a company uses a 32 or 64GB SSD on employee’s office PC for the operating system plus program data, and only stores data on the magnetic drive – securely backing up that data into the cloud every evening – the machine’s bootup time each morning is a lot faster than if a single magnetic drive were to be used, he said.

    There are also good energy savings to be had, says Cordial – by powering down each employee’s computer each evening, rather than leaving them running through the night and at weekends, as many companies do to save on maintenance costs.

    With SSDs, he adds, there are no problems with stop-start cycles that you get with magnetic drives. And with the latest cloud technology, it also becomes possible to use just a 32 or 64 GB SSD drive on an office PC for the OS and programs, and then store the rest of the data wholly in the cloud.

    “This is what Google’s upcoming Chrome OS is all about – better speed and efficiency, and a reduced need for processor power on the local desktop or notebook PC. The days of magnetic drives are far from being numbered, but the price breakthrough now being seen with 512 GB SSDs is also starting to push the prices of smaller capacity SSDs in the right direction,” he said.

    “The price depression effect is slow but steady, but I think that we will see more and more corporates moving on up to the benefits that SSDs now offer. We have already seen an increase in demand for SSD products from Dell for notebooks and netbooks. And that’s no bad thing on several fronts, not least in terms of the energy saving possibilities,” he added

     

  • Origin Storage 17:01 on 01/07/2011 Permalink | Reply
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    Apple Mac now features native support for encrypted drives 

    The upcoming Apple Mac OS Lion operating system will incorporate a number of useful security features.

    “The FileVault 2 feature is a very welcome addition to the new Mac operating system, especially with support for external USB and Firewire drives. This is really good news,” said Andy Cordial, Origin’s managing director. “The addition of an instant wipe facility is also to be welcomed. With large drives, the wiping of data – especially on a remote basis in the event of device loss – takes a finite period of time. By removing the encryption keys, the remote wipe is effectively as near-instant as you are going to get,” he added.

    According to Cordial, ever since he and his team started banging the encrypted drive drum some three years ago, customers have welcomed the availability of well-priced full disk encryption technology. This has been the reason, he explained, why the kits – which provide PC users with all the essentials they need to upgrade a PC’s existing drive to an encrypted unit, including a transfer cable and software – have been hot sellers.

    This enthusiasm for encrypted data was also felt, says the Origin Storage managing director, at this year’s Infosecurity Europe show, when Cordial and his team were showing off their Datalocker 3 range of multi-security factor portable encrypted drives. The trend towards encrypted drives was highlighted, he says, by a survey conducted amongst show-goers by our colleagues over at DigitalPersona, who found that two-third of survey respondents at Infosecurity Europe 2011 held disk encryption as a key IT priority.

    The survey took in responses from more than 360 attendees at the show, and found that whilst large enterprises may have the resources to implement effective and comprehensive disk encryption on all devices, smaller organisations have traditionally reported difficulty finding encryption that is affordable and easy to implement.

    And this, of course, he adds, is where Origin’s Datalocker 3 series enters the frame, offering companies of all sizes access to high-capacity and secure portable storage with encryption technology that is further secured by a 6 to 32-digit alphanumeric passphrase that is entered directly on the device itself.

    “With features that include a USB 3.0 interface for fast data transfers and support for Apple Macs, Windows and Linux platforms, the Datalocker 3 secures data using 256-bit AES encryption and comes in capacities of up to one terabyte,” he said.

    “This all-round flexibility makes it ideal for those companies that use Apple Macs with the new Lion operating system, and, of course, the drives will also plug into regular PCs on a hot-swap basis,” he added. “It’s really good to see that our positive stance on encrypted drives over the last three years being mirrored by the industry, especially with the Apple Mac now featuring native support for encrypted drives.”

     

  • Origin Storage 17:09 on 15/06/2011 Permalink | Reply
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    The mobile security conundrum 

    Whilst the range and variety of IT security defences for portable computers – that’s netbooks and laptops to most people – is excellent, and able to cater for all budgets and types of user, it should be apparent to any security observer that the same cannot be said for smartphones and tablet computers.

    With 45 million iPads already having been sold, and with the prospect of Android tablets and BlackBerry tablets also selling in their millions, it’s clear that IT security professionals working within companies of all sizes have a security problem on their hands.

    And this is before we even begin to talk about securing the rising numbers of smartphones in the business workplace.

    With most business users toting one or more mobile devices with a variety of email, documents and contact details in their memories, it should be clear that smartphones and tablet computers should be afforded the same levels of security and protection as the laptops and netbooks in circulation.

    And the lines between portable computers and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are becoming blurred. Toshiba already has an Android-based netbook released, and several vendors – notably Acer and Lenovo – have laptops running Windows and Android coming down the technology turnpike this summer.

    The pressing question facing the hard-pressed IT security manager is how, in the face of a paucity of tablet and smartphone-specific security offerings, and a general apathy amongst corporate users, how to get the mobile security focus back on track?

    According to a just-released major report from the CNCCS – Spain’s national cybersecurity advisory council – a general lack of security awareness amongst mobile users and their general carelessness are the two main risk factors for smartphones in business.

    The conclusions of the June 2011 report are that, unlike the previous generations of mobiles, which are – at worst – susceptible to local Bluetooth hijacking, today’s smartphones are subject to the same risks as PCs.

    New attack vectors, says the report – which was researched by our security colleagues at Panda Security and F21Sec – will increasingly be exploited by fraudsters as online banking services use these devices as second authentication factors given the current convergence between PCs and cell phones.

    Against this backdrop, the research recommends that users take all necessary precautions when opening email messages, SMS attachments or clicking links – the latter of which is an entry point for the latest Zeus attacks.

    Users should also, says the report, be wary of any files, links or numbers received from unsolicited email or SMS messages, and avoid using untrusted WiFi networks.

    Most notably of all, is the recommendation that firms should take smartphones into account when establishing their corporate security policies.

    The just-released CNCCS report confirms many of the findings of Origin Storage’s survey of IT security professionals at April’s Infosecurity Europe show, in which we discovered that 41 per cent of IT professionals are carrying sensitive information on their smartphones.

    Against a backdrop of 19 per cent of respondents revealing their employers had suffered a breach as a result of a portable device going missing, and more than half of those respondents revealing that the portable device was not encrypted, it is clear that something has to be done.

    What was interesting about the results of the survey was 70 per cent of organisations had made data encryption mandatory in their businesses, suggesting that many users of portable devices are breaking their own firm’s security policy rules in their day-to-day business.

    This apathy also perhaps explains the fact that 37 per cent of respondents admitted that between four-fifths and all of their sensitive data stored on their portable devices was unprotected.

    It’s interesting to note that this proves the case that we are not just dealing with a few files copied to a portable device in a hurry here – perhaps by an employee who is late for an off-site meeting. This is a failing in corporate security policies and their implementation.

    So what is the solution to the general apathy surrounding the use of portable devices, and especially Internet-connected devices such as tablet computers and smartphones?

    User education, whilst desirable, plainly isn’t working, as most corporate users of technology are probably aware of the security risks posed by their laptop computer.

    This understanding has been driven by years of discussion and education by all parts of the IT industry, not least by the resellers and systems integrators that supply this type of kit to most businesses.

    Unfortunately for corporate portable device users everywhere, only a handful of those same resellers and systems integrators sell tablet computers into the business environment, whilst most smartphones are sold to companies through cellcos or their dealers.

    And, as any mobile user will attest, security is rarely on agenda of the dealers and cellular networks that are busy promoting and selling their handsets plus mobile phone contracts. It’s a non-starter.

    It’s against this backdrop that we are left with the stark reality that it will probably take a series of major corporate blunders involving sensitive data lost as the result of a lapse of security in a tablet computer or smartphone, and for the affected company’s reputation and share price to take a consequential battering.

    There is nothing like a share price dip of 8 to 10 per cent to focus the attentions of a CEO and CFO, and so pressure the IT manager into deploying sound security solutions and practices to stop an incident from ever happening again.

    The irony of this situation will not go unnoticed amongst those IT professionals reading these words and whose experience dates back to the 1990s, when desktop and laptop security was in a similar evolutionary stage as mobile security is today, some two decades later.

    And whilst today we have regulatory influences such as the Data Protection Act and the PCI DSS rules applying to any business that stores personally identifying information card transactions, the fact that the Information Commissioner’s Office has only rarely prosecuted an organisation for a breach of the DPA, means that the stick approach will not work.

    So what about the carrot approach? That too, sadly, is also probably doomed to failure, so we are left with the need for governance and the tapping of hardware plus software resources to help enforce best practice in the mobile security arena.

    Supplemented by corporate policies that prohibit the user of mobile devices without encryption – and treating a breach of the rules as a disciplinary offence – it is possible to change the habits of UK PLC.

    The process will, however, take time. Changing portable device user security behaviour is a task similar to steering an giant oil tanker – all changes of course need to be planned some way in advance, but once executed can be relied up on to take effect over a period of time.

     

  • Origin Storage 14:23 on 09/06/2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Andy Cordial, Back up data, Backup data, Corporates, Corporation, Data Back Up, , , , Magnetic Hard Drive, Operating System, , Portable Storage, , , , , System   

    Origin Storage welcomes news that 512 GB SSDs prices are falling below $1000 

    News that a 512 gigabyte SSD (solid state drive) has fallen in price to under a thousand dollars in the US has been welcomed by Andy Cordial, managing director of Origin Storage.

    According to Cordial – who heads up the secure storage systems specialist – pricing has always been perceived as something of an obstacle to the adoption of SSDs and – whilst solid state drives attract a premium over magnetic hard drives – the advantages are significant.

    “We are now starting to see corporates adopting SSDs for the operating system, basic programs and critical systems data, alongside a larger magnetic hard drive for data storage. This gives companies the advantage of rapid boot up times and, interestingly enough, by moving the SSD to a read-only setting, higher levels of security against system problems,” he said.

    “By storing the customised set-up files for a PC on the magnetic main drive, even if the worst happens and the main drive is trashed by malware, the IT department can simply swap the magnetic drive out and, with no appreciable configuration changes, the SSD will boot the PC up as normal,” he added.

    The Origin Storage MD went on to say that the real advantage of SSDs to a company with several hundred PCs is the time saving in terms of bootup time.

    If, for example, a company uses a 32 or 64GB SSD on employee’s office PC for the operating system plus program data, and only stores data on the magnetic drive – securely backing up that data into the cloud every evening – the machine’s bootup time each morning is a lot faster than if a single magnetic drive were to be used, he explained.

    There are also good energy savings to be had, says Cordial – by powering down each employee’s computer each evening, rather than leaving them running through the night and at weekends, as many companies do to save on maintenance costs.

    With SSDs, he adds, there are no problems with stop-start cycles that you get with magnetic drives. And with the latest cloud technology, it also becomes possible to use just a 32 or 64 GB SSD drive on an office PC for the OS and programs, and then store the rest of the data wholly in the cloud.

    “This is what Google’s upcoming Chrome OS is all about – better speed and efficiency, and a reduced need for processor power on the local desktop or notebook PC. The days of magnetic drives are far from being numbered, but the price breakthrough now being seen with 512 GB SSDs is also starting to push the prices of smaller capacity SSDs in the right direction,” he said.

    “The price depression effect is slow but steady, but I think that we will see more and more corporates moving on up to the benefits that SSDs now offer. We have already seen an increase in demand for SSD products from Dell for notebooks and netbooks. And that’s no bad thing on several fronts, not least in terms of the energy saving possibilities,” he added.

    For more Origin Storage: http://www.originstorage.com

    For more on the 512 GB SSD price breakthough: http://bit.ly/mdcrmB

    For further information or to speak with Andy Cordial, please contact:

    Regine Hartmann
    Eskenzi PR for Origin Storage
    020 7183 2834
    regine@eskenzipr.com

     

  • Origin Storage 09:14 on 10/05/2011 Permalink | Reply
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    41 Percent of IT Professionals Carrying Sensitive Information on Mobile Devices – Unprotected 

    Basingstoke (UK), 10 May 2011: A study by Origin Storage – the secure storage specialist, has revealed that 41 percent of what should be a security savvy audience are carrying sensitive information on mobile devices unprotected. In fact, 19 percent revealed that their organisation had suffered a data breach following the loss of a portable device (i.e. laptop, USB, CD) with 54 percent confessing the device had not been encrypted – an offence under the Data Protection Act and subject to regulatory action by the ICO, were it made aware!

    With 70 percent of organisations making data encryption mandatory, 11 percent of those respondents carrying sensitive information unprotected are actually breaching their organisation’s data protection efforts while the other 30 percent are simply following their organisations woefully inadequate example. When digging a little deeper the study, amongst IT security professionals at this years Infosecurity Europe show, uncovered a staggering 37 percent of respondents who confessed that between 81 and 100 percent of all sensitive data stored on their device(s) was actually left unprotected – so not just one or two documents transferred in a hurry.

    Andy Cordial, Origin’s managing director, explains, “When you consider the level of knowledge this audience is assumed to have, working in IT and having some form of security remit, yet the lax protection used for sensitive data, it’s hardly surprising data breaches are increasing in frequency and especially recently in size. I’m astounded that 30 percent of organisations are still oblivious to the Data Protection Act and the recommendation from the Information Commissioner that encryption be used to protect sensitive information.”

    The problem of sensitive data isn’t restricted to any particular device as 67 percent use laptops, 52 percent USBs, 33 percent still rely on CDs with 52 percent using another form of portable storage device.

    A final startling revelation is that just 36 percent of visitors felt that FIPS certification is ‘a must’ for encryption technology.

    Andy concludes, “The ICO recommends any solution should meet FIPS 140-2 yet 31 percent of our sample flippantly state that it ‘doesn’t matter’. Certification is the only ‘proof’ that the product actually does what the company ‘claim’ it does. It’s not just me saying this because our products have the certification as there have been incidences where products have fundamental design problems, or even companies that have made false claims. My advice – don’t leave security to chance. Lock it down with something that’s actually proven to work or there is a strong possibility you’ll be crying over spilled data.”

    To explore our solutions for Data Security, click here.

     

  • Origin Storage 09:11 on 09/05/2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Andy Cordial, , , , Disk Drive, Disk Drives, , , Encryption Hardware, , Full Disk, Full Disk Encryption, , Laptop Encryption, , , Notebook Hard Drive, , Ponemon, , Self-Encrypting Drives   

    Origin Storage welcomes Ponemon report on self-encrypting drives 

    A report just released from the Ponemon Institute - which found that (Enigma) SEDs – self-encrypting drives – are more effective than software-based encryption systems when it comes to preventing data beaches – has been welcomed by Origin Storage.

    According to Andy Cordial, managing director of the secure storage specialist, the conclusions of the report – namely that SEDs are much better at stopping data breaches than software encryption options – confirms his company’s strategy of launching SED kits more than a year ago was a positive move.

    “Since we launched the kits, which contain everything a PC user needs to move on up to a hard drive that encrypts and decrypts data on-the-fly, the response has been terrific. Buyers love these kits, as they allow existing PCs to be upgraded to encrypted drive capability, so saving them a small fortune,” he said.

    “When I first heard that the Ponemon Institute had conducted a survey into this area, I was intrigued, especially against the backdrop survey that 82 per cent of US firms have been hit by one or more data breaches,” he added.

    The Origin Systems MD went on to say that the Ponemon survey revealed that 40 per cent of workers regularly turn off software-based encryption.

    This, he says, is entirely understandable. “It’s bad news, but given the latency and other under un-friendliness of many systems I have seen over the years, it really isn’t that surprising,” he said.

    The Ponemon study, he noted, ticked all the boxes on the SED advantage front that he and his team went through when researching the SED kit solutions around 15 to 18 months ago.

    Enhanced scalability and faster set-up times over other systems were all cited by users as positive advantages of SEDs, along with the fact that 89 per cent of respondents wanted an SED to encrypt their financial documents, he explained.

    It’s also interesting, says Cordial, that the study found 52 per cent encrypting company trade secrets and 41 per cent employee records, as these are the plus points that we have been hearing when users source our kits.

    “The bottom line here is that this report confirms – in black and white – what our clients have been saying for more than a year, namely that SED technology has now reached the stage where it is just as easy to install an encrypting drive than a standard unit,” he said.

    “And with the price of the kits that we supply being so competitive, there really is no reason for companies – and serious home users – not to install an SED over a standard drive. And the good news is that this report will confirm this reasoning to the bean counters (accountants) if your business requires it,” he added.

    For more information on Origin’s Encryption product range click here.

    For more on the Ponemon SED report: http://bit.ly/lTvqWh

     

  • Origin Storage 16:11 on 28/04/2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Andy Cordial, ChannelWeb, Chris McIntosh, , Cyber, Cyber Crime, , , , , , , , , , OriginStorage, ViaSat UK   

    ICO hits out at data breach figures 

    Watchdog claims data loss figures released under the Freedom of Information Act have been misunderstood

    The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has hit out at encryption vendor ViaSat over claims it has misinterpreted data supplied to the firm via a Freedom of Information (FoI) request

    The data watchdog came under fire last week after it emerged that it has issued a handful of financial penalties totalling £310,000 for Data Protection Act (DPA) breaches, despite acquiring powers to impose fines of up to £500,000 a year ago.

    The figures were obtained via a FoI request by ViaSat who said the ICO’s inaction was harming the deterrent value of the fines.

    The ICO has since released a statement claiming that one of the statistics, relating to the number of data breaches reported between 6 April 2010 and 22 March 2011, supplied to ViaSat, has been misinterpreted. This is a claim the firm staunchly denies.

    According to ViaSat, 2,565 potential data breaches were reported during that period, while the ICO claims the actual figure is far fewer.

    A representative from the ICO explained: “While it is true that the ICO has concluded that in 2,565 cases compliance with the DPA was unlikely, the figure for self-reported security breaches – where information has been disclosed or lost – is far lower.

    “The 2,565 [figure] cover all types of compliance including a company sending unwanted postal marketing, incorrect data being held or an organisation not handling a subject access request appropriately.”

    In total, the ICO said it received 603 self-reported data breaches, 37 of which resulted in action being taken.

    The representative continued: “These [self-reported security breaches] vary from minor administrative errors, where enforcement action would not be appropriate to serious data losses which led to the ICO imposing a monetary penalty.”

    In a statement to ChannelWeb, Chris McIntosh, chief executive of ViaSat UK, defended his firm’s use of the figures, claiming the fault lies in the way the ICO supplied its data.

    “The figure of 2,565 was given to us by the ICO in direct response to an FoI request on the number of data breaches reported since 6 April 2010,” he said. “Our request was clear in that we wanted information on the number of data breaches.

    “Even if you look at the revised figures the ICO has released, it is still clear that monetary penalties have been enforced in less than one per cent of the data losses it has dealt with.”

    Daniel Hamilton, director of public privacy campaigners Big Brother Watch, said the issue is not with the number of breaches reported, but the small number the ICO is clamping down on.

    “For the ICO to only take enforcement action in such a small number of cases, suggests he is little more than a paper tiger,” he said. “The ICO has tough and wide-ranging powers and it is time he used them to maximum effect.”

    This is a view shared by Andy Cordial, managing director of vendor Origin Storage. “We still see a number of high-profile data losses and very little action from the ICO,” he said.

    “The majority of the 603 cases could have be prevented with a small investment and until fines become more widespread, confidential data will continue to be compromised,” he added.

     

  • Origin Storage 13:41 on 21/04/2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Andy Cordial, Barrie Desmond, , , , VADition   

    Consumerisation of IT looms large on security agenda 

    The consumerisation of IT has been one of the main themes of the InfoSec show over the last three days in London.

    The rise in flexible working and the increasing move by employers to allow their staff to bring their own devices into work is having a major impact on security.

    “There has been a loss of control over the last couple of years and a lot of IT security professionals have been in denial,” said Barrie Desmond, marketing and business development director at VADition.

    He added that dealing with queries about opening up networks in a secure way had been a constant source of queries on the stands at the show from customers.

    Various solutions are being put together to cope with the rise of consumerisation and are seeing a rise in demand for encryption tools, virtual desktop solutions and secure portable storage products.

    Andy Cordial, managing director at Origin Storage, said that the concerns over data were causing some customers to investigate internal hard drive encryption as well as remote devices.

    The security industry has actively engaged with the consumerisation debate moving quickly to calm customer nerves that it can deliver the framework needed to provide flexibility without compromising data integrity.

     

  • Origin Storage 14:36 on 19/04/2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Andy Cordial, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   

    1TB Encrypted External Hard Disk Now Available 

    Origin Storage has just launched Datalocker 3 a new external hard disk that provides whole hard disk encryption capability.

    Datalocker 3 has the following extra benefits compared to its predecessor DataLocker 2; USB3 support, RFID for dual factor authentication and a backlit LCD on the drive.

    We quizzed Andy Cordial, Managing Director of Origin Storage, on the need for a backlit LCD on an external hard disk.

    “In the previous version, some customers had problems viewing the keypad when typing in their encryption access key in lowlit areas, so we added the extra functionality. As Datalocker 3 now supports a 31 digit access code in alphanumeric format – customers don’t want to make mistakes that could lock the out of their drives.”

    The downside of Datalocker 3 is that it is not currently FIP 140-2 approved. According to Andy Cordial from Origin Storage; “FIP 140-2 support will be available by end of 2011 but if this is an issue, customers can still purchase Datalocker 2.”

    Datalocker 3 comes in three sizes 320GB, 640GB and 1TB and pricing has yet to be disclosed.

    Discover more about the DataLocker range at Origin Storage here.

    Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2011/04/19/1tb-encrypted-external-hard-disk-now-available/#ixzz1M39aFf8Y

     

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