A new report from Coughlin Associates indicates that a significant number of hard disk drives and solid state drives support self-encrypting drive, or SED, capabilities, which are based on standards created by TCG.
The report looks at the growth of SED-capable devices, in which self-encryption is built into the device. In addition, the report examines the growth of security-enabled SED devices, and then takes a look at the adoption of devices for security. Market drivers are examined and the potential impact on the growth of SEDs is evaluated.
The report includes projections and historical data, growth factors and a number of charts and graphs related to the content.
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TCG standards-based SEDs currently ship from most if not all drive makers and include HDD, SSD, hybrid and enterprise storage systems. A number of software vendors support SEDs with management tools that allow remote set-up and management of drives, which encrypt data at rest with an encryption key stored in hardware and enable micro-erase for instant erasure and re-use or disposal.
More info on SEDs is available at https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/solutions/data_protection.
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