Now that the capacities of laptops and other portable device drives have hit hundreds of gigabytes, just about any corporate database can easily fit on a laptop. That affordable capacity gives users ...

The Trusted Computing Group's newly released specifications for the management of hard drive encryption are now being adopted by a number of vendors -- Seagate arguably the most prominent, but also ...

The ease of use, portability, and convenience of USB drives have been proven to increase productivity. However, a BYOD (bring your own device) policy is a critical threat to any organization, even ...

Hard drive encryption is nothing but the organized corruption of data. The technology hit the spotlight in 2006 when the infamous VA laptop was stolen which contained personally identifiable ...

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I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced availability of what it is touting as the highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive. The Travelstar 7K200 doubles the capacity of its ...

Encryption is a wonderful thing. While I don’t run full-drive encryption on my Windows desktop at home—courtesy of BitLocker—that’s only because I’m the only one who ever uses my system and I don’t ...

Companies relying on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to secure data stored on their employees’ laptops should be aware that this technology is not immune to attack and should carefully consider whether ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive ...

I have a fresh install coming shortly. I am pondering encrypting the OS drive albeit I am not entirely sure what that achieves for me security wise on my desktop (with all the other drives not ...