Phoenix Technologies Working with Fujitsu To Bring Failsafe Remote Drive Tracking/Disabling/Erasing to Fujitsu’s FDE Hard Drives

Phoenix Technologies have announced that they are collaborating with
Fujitsu with view to bringing remote disk control and disk data
protection to devices employing Fujitsu's new full disk encryption (FDE)
SATA hard disk drives that will include the facility to track, remotely
disable and even remotely erase data from HDD units should your
laptop/notebook be stolen or otherwise fall into the wrong hands.

Being developed specifically with Fujitsu’s new full disk
encryption (FDE) 2.5″ 7,200rpm SATA hard disk drives, Phoenix
Technologies' vice president, Surendra Arora, announced their
collaboration with Fujitsu stating that 'Phoenix&'s FailSafe
theft-deterrence service will allow the PC owner to track, remotely
disable and securely erase the Fujitsu disk drive,' adding that, '�In
the event of laptop theft, if the FailSafe agent pre-installed on the
Fujitsu FDE HDD product is removed by the computer/data thief, the
authorized owner will be able to remotely re-install the FailSafe agent
in the compromised system and take further steps to ensure protection as
well as recovery of the data on the laptop'.

These further steps range from the remote enabling of protection and
drive encryption to the last resort measure of remotely 'killing'
sensitive data.

Quite how such actions could be enacted remotely is, somewhat
understandably, not detailed in Phoenix Technologies' press release, but
in an age where the loss of sensitive data can have grave political and
financial repercussions we don't doubt that such technology will gain
substantial interest not only from the corporate sector but also those
who increasingly use their mobile computing devices to log and document
everything from bank account details and logins their every move.

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