GreenTec-USA Unveils ForceField Automatic Block-Level Data Protection

GreenTec-USA, Inc. released a way of protecting each data block ‘on-the-fly’, as it is written to storage media.

ForceField protects from sabotage, manipulation, disclosure, ransomware and other destructive events.

“This technology goes way beyond file protection because each data block in a file is immediately protected as it is written, there is no need to close the file, and each block is protected even if power is lost or the system crashes. This is a big deal because there is nothing else like it in the market. It was developed at the request of major stock market exchanges and U.S. national research laboratories“, said Steve Petruzzo, president, GreenTec-USA.

ForceField is a way of locking down each data blockby saving the data. As the file is being saved, each data block within the file is encrypted and protected with the selected type of write protection applied. For example, in some cases the data needs to be protected from sabotage, manipulation, deletion and ransomware, but an authorized user may later need to modify or add to it. In other scenarios permanent protection may be needed. The technology provides both temporary and permanent protection options for the user.

Unfortunately, there is a general misconception that with typical encryption your data is protected. This is partially true in that encrypted data is protected from disclosure. But encryption does not protect from deletion or re-encryption by ransomware or other attacks. ForceField does protect from both disclosure and also from deletion, re-encryption, ransomware and other attacks.

ForceField simplifies key management by placing self-generated encryption keys in the key repository specified by the configuration file, with a two-factor approach where the keys themselves are also encrypted using the file user id and password for additional security. Keys may reside on removable media such as USB tokens or CAC cards, so that in order to decipher the data, both the key media device must be inserted and the correct file userid and password must be entered.

Users and applications may simply open, save, drag-and-drop or use standard commands to store and view their protected data files. ForceField also provides an API that enables users to embed these capabilities directly into their applications.

ForceField is a secure and way to protect sensitive documents, financial transactions, critical records, voting machines, firewall log files, email repositories, medical systems, system backups, data archives, digital evidence, regulatory compliance, block chain transactions, crypto currency wallets and ledgers, endpoint security and other sensitive files and data.

ForceField scales from an individual disk drive, up to data center racks and also in the cloud.