Second Generation of Encrypted HDDs From Stonewood

Stonewood Electronics Ltd, designer and manufacturer of encrypted hard drives, has announced the launch of its Eclypt range, the next generation of the FlagStone family of hardware encrypted drives.

There has rarely been a day gone by without a story about significant data loss in the press: From hospitals losing patients’ medical records to financial institutions exposing hundreds and thousands of consumers’ bank account details. Many of these losses have been as a direct result of the loss of company laptops or transportable media.

The IDC predicts that the mobile workforce will reach global figures of 1 billion by 2011, and that the move towards remote and mobile working across all sectors is a predictably upward trend. With analysts predicting that sensitive data will increasingly be on the move, businesses have to ensure that their confidential and sensitive information is properly protected. Eclypt, Stonewood’s latest range of encrypted hard drives offers the most advanced encryption technology available to the private sector.

Stonewood CEO, Brendan Forster said: “Eclypt offers a real alternative to businesses that would normally look to data protection software providers for the protection of their data. Eclypt drives require no maintenance, are free from renewable licence fees and call for no specialist IT knowledge or training.”

Unlike software-based encryption solutions, the Eclypt family is a completely tamper-proof and tamper-evident range of hard disk drives that protects data at rest, even if the device is stolen or lost.

Eclypt hard drives provide instant data protection without any adverse effects to a computer’s performance, encrypting and decrypting the data immediately and invisibly. Eclypt technology safeguards data by integrating sophisticated authentication, entire disk encryption and data storage into tamper-proof internal and portable hardware.

Available capacities for the Eclypt range span from 60GB to 120GB for Eclypt Corporate, to 320GB for Eclypt Freedom, and operate independently of any operating system or application.

Eclypt Corporate

Eclypt Corporate is a direct replacement for the laptop’s standard hard drive and is available factory fitted or retrofitted to provide immediate protection to data at rest.
Capacity: 60GB to 120GB
Interfaces: Parallel ATA or Serial ATA
Key Features:

• Encrypts and decrypts your data immediately and invisibly without adversely affecting the computer’s performance
• Independent of any operating system, application, service pack or software patch
• Encryption keys are not exposed to operating system
• Unique tamper-proof and tamper-evident construction
• Requires no specialist IT knowledge or training Up to 128 account users per drive
• Multiple user profiles
• Administrator-defined password characteristics
• Windows-based user account management software for easy use to remote management capabilities
• Optional 2 factor authentication – password and token, with local resetting capabilities
• Keys can be internally generated (ANSI x9.31 AES-256 RNG) or user defined
• Non-volatile keys stored within tamper-proof device, protected by AES-256 keywrap

Eclypt Freedom

Eclypt Freedom is an external hard drive which has been developed to meet the portable data security needs of both the business sector and Government sector.
Its secure USB ‘plug and play’ feature allows information to be securely:

• Transferred between computers
• Stored, archived or backed up
• Transported between/to different locations

Capacity: 320GB
Dimensions: 129mm x 79mm x 15mm
Interface: USB High/Full Speed and USB 2.0/1.1 Compliant
Key Features:

• Quick ‘plug and play’ USB connectivity
• Encrypts and decrypts your data immediately and invisibly with adverse effects on the computer’s performance
• Independent of any operating system, application, service pack or software patch
• Encryption keys are not exposed to operating system
• Data is secure even if your drive is stolen
• Unique tamper-proof and tamper-evident construction
• Requires no specialist IT knowledge or training
• Up to 128 account users per drive
• Multiple user profiles
• Administrator-defined password characteristics
• Windows-based user account management software for easy use to remote management capabilities
• Optional 2 factor authentication – password and token, with local resetting capabilities
• Keys can be internally generated (ANSI x9.31 AES-256 RNG) or user defined
• Non-volatile keys stored within tamper-proof device, protected by AES-256 keywrap

Stonewood Electronics Ltd