The Division of Child Support of State of Washington Selects 200 SanDisk Secure Flash Drives
Using management by CMC server software to protect data
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 26, 2008 at 3:38 pmSanDisk Corporation announced that the State of
Washington’s Division of Child Support has
selected SanDisk’s Cruzer
Enterprise secure USB flash drives and Central Management & Control
(CMC) server software to protect highly confidential client data at its
headquarters and in 10 field offices statewide.
The Division of Child Support (DCS) administers state and federal child
support laws, including the collection of child-support payments from
non-custodial parents. DCS manages about 350,000 active child-support
cases and collects about $700 million per year in child-support payments.
“With the many recent reports of data loss and
theft involving government agencies around the world, we are pleased to
help DCS respond to security problems before they happen,”
said Roy Ramati, vice president and general manager of the Enterprise
Division at SanDisk. “DCS employees don’t
have to give up the convenience of carrying data on flash drives, while
the division’s information technology (IT)
staff knows that data is password-protected and encrypted –
and that Cruzer Enterprise drives can be easily managed with CMC, even
in field offices far from headquarters.”
DCS, part of the Washington State Department of Social and Health
Services, gathers highly confidential information –
including Internal Revenue Service tax returns, employer records,
criminal histories and even U.S. State Department passport data –
in pursuing its collection efforts. Protecting this data from
unauthorized access and improper use is crucial.
As one element of its data security strategy, DCS last month purchased
200 Cruzer Enterprise drives along with SanDisk’s
CMC software for managing the complete lifecycle of those drives. The
secure flash drives are being provided to unit supervisors, who manage
collection teams in DCS field offices. The master CMC console for
provisioning and managing the drives will be at DCS headquarters in
Olympia, Wash., with sub-administrators in each DCS field office.
Cruzer Enterprise protects all files stored on the drive with advanced
hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption. Users are also required to create
a complex password during the set-up process. The combination of
encryption and password protection makes it extremely difficult for
unauthorized users to access data if the drive is lost or stolen. Cruzer
Enterprise is also fast, with read speed of 24 megabytes (MB) per second
and write speed of 20 MB/sec1.
CMC server software provides lifecycle management for Cruzer Enterprise
drives, including password recovery and renewal through the network,
remote termination of lost drives, central back-up and restore, and
central usage tracking. This means data is not lost when a drive is
lost, and IT administrators can provision a replacement flash drive with
user files stored on the network.
ControlGuard, a provider of enterprise-grade security solutions
and a member of the SanDisk Enterprise Solutions Technology Alliance
(SESTA), managed the sale of CMC to the Division of Child Support.
“ControlGuard and SanDisk together offer
powerful tools to convert USB flash drives from security threats into
security assets. We
applaud the State of Washington’s Division of
Child Support for showing true leadership in protecting confidential
data.” said David Raanan, chief
marketing officer of ControlGuard.
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