Addonics Technologies has launched an advanced portable encrypted hard drive security offering that provides multiple levels of protection for mobile users.
The Cipher Drive SC integrates into the drive enclosure a Smart Card reader and key pad to provide two levels of authentication to ensure passwords never encounter the computer.
The hardware-based encryption is transparent to the end-user and is platform, operating system, and software independent.
The company said that its hardware offering, which utilises eNova encryption and ASIC chip technology, is much faster than software encryption because the system processor isn’t being used.
The Cipher Drive SC features Smart Card + PIN authentication, full disk hardware encryption using AES 256-bit key strength, and an user-configurable PIN and admin password for administrative mode.
The offering supports any 2.5inches SATA hard drive of 9mm – 9.5mm height, has a built-in USB 2.0 and Firewire 800 interface, and is RHS compliant.
Addonics president Bill Kwong said that the hardware-based encryption is more cost effective, easier to use and much simpler to deploy than software based solutions,
"Not only are there no update problems or different platforms and operating systems to worry about, there’s no performance degradation because the CPU is freed from doing encryption," Kwong said.
