CipherDriveOne Hardware Full Disk Encryption – Authorization Acquisition Solution

CipherDriveOne, a KLC Group company, is first in promoting a hardware full disk encryption – Authorization Acquisition (AA) solution for the US Government’s Data-at-Rest (DAR) requirement.

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The company adds an additional layer of key encryption and authentication on top of any OPAL 2.0 self-encrypting SSD or HDD drives. The protection of the HDD’s content is immediate, OS agnostic and governed by FIPS-140-2 level key encryption technology that is Common Criteria certified with the availability of a managed single, 2-factor, and multi-factor user authentication.

With the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of workers have been pushed outside the boundaries of the traditional office. Remote users with powerful laptops and workstations are more vulnerable to data breaches and theft. The theft may be due to an accidental loss of a computer, coordinated theft by organized criminal gangs or by a hostile foreign government involved in espionage. The problem is that a self-encrypting drive (SED) is at its most vulnerable point when the computer is turned off and the data is at rest. By taking an unprotected HDD out of one computer and connecting it to another, a malicious user will have full access to the drive’s content and, thus, gain full access to all the data on the self-encrypting HDD. Now with the firm’s solution, the HDD is locked with a pre-boot authentication software, preventing the HDD from being accessed by any unauthorized user.

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A common problem of securing data on a self-encrypting HDD is there are no certified solutions to manage and lock the SED HDD. The solution installs on a secure, read-only partition of any HDD that supports TCG OPAL 2.0 and is OS agnostic as it works equally well for Windows, Linux, and Hypervisors like VMWare, Hyper-V and SecureView. CipherDriveOne users can manage single, 2-factor, and multi-factor authentication to unlock the HDD and boot to the OSs and in the event of tampering or in hostile situations, the company provides features like secure erase and lockout by a 4-digit – ‘Dead Man’s Switch’.

“We are proud to release CipherDriveOne after gaining many early customers. CipherDriveOne is unique by technology and certification,” said Kurt Lennartsson, managing partner, KLC Group. “CipherDriveOne supports any OS and provides a wide range of essential pre-boot authentication features which fulfills an imminent need in the trusted computing market today.“

The company exceeds in the areas of compliance and certification by use of a management dashboard, industry-standard security user profiles and system logs. It utilizes FIPS-certified encryption algorithms. It has completed Common Criteria certification at Lightship Security Labs in Ottawa, Canada. It is listed on the Canada Common Criteria Scheme (CCCS) on and on the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) website in February 2021. KLC announced the CipherDrive 1.2.2 listing in March 2021 to the National Security Agency Central Security Service’s (NSA|CSS) Component Listing under Commercial Solutions for Classified Program (CSfC) for Hardware Full-Disk Encryption (HWFDE) for collaborative ‘Protection Profile for Full Drive Encryption – Authorization Acquisition’.

Common Criteria Certificate for CipherDrive 1.2.2 (PDF)

National Information Assurance Partnership Listing for CipherDriveOne:

NSA/CSS CSfC Component Listing

The company is available for direct purchase and through licensed partners and resellers on the General Services Administration (GSA) Advantage partnership program.

Resource:
CipherDriveOne Digistor Partner DS May 25 2021

About KLC Group LLC and CipherDriveOne
CipherDriveOne, a KLC Group Company, is a Silicon Valley cybersecurity company. They are experts in encryption, authentication, and intrusion detection cybersecurity products. The company takes an innovative approach to secure product design. Its primary goal is to design security and privacy-oriented products for the Internet. Founded in 2007, KLC Group is headquartered in San Jose, CA.