Imation has launched a new portfolio of products to protect information on external hard drives, flash drives, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and similar storage devices from hackers, identity thieves and other electronic intruders.
The company said that its new Defender Collection line of digital storage products is engineered to meet domestic and international encryption standards, as well as protect government, financial, health care, consumer and other industries.
According to Imation, the new portfolio includes flash drives, external hard drives, optical storage and software that prevent unauthorised access to confidential data and builds on Imation’s existing offerings including the DataGuard rf Tape Tracking System, DataGuard Transportation and Storage Cases, SecureScan for LTO tape cartridges and DataGuard GPS to help companies physically secure and protect their digital information.
Imation said that it plans to continue to add new secure products, providing a range of data storage offerings to back up, protect and track data at rest for organisations especially in the government, finance and banking, health care and consumer industries. To enhance its portfolio, Imation has partnered with two security technology companies MXI and ENCRYPTX
The Defender Collection will expand the company’s data storage offerings with Defender Software Suite which helps organisations manage and protect data storage devices using Malware AntiVirus Scanning along with central device management; Defender Optical that is self-encrypting, self-burning and feature one-factor authentication; Defender F50 Pivot Flash Drive and Defender F100 and F150 Flash Drives that offer password authentication, and have a waterproof and dustproof enclosure.
In addition, the new offerings also include Defender F200 Biometric Flash Drive that helps prevent PC-based attacks with its two factor authentication, password and biometric authentication capabilities; and Defender H100 & H200 External Hard Drives that feature password authentication and biometric fingerprint.
Keith Schwartz, director of strategic growth and public sector for Imation’s global commercial business, said : “The need for data-at-rest security solutions is rapidly growing, with data breaches costing US organisations at least $45bn annually.
“With decades of leadership in data storage, Imation is in a unique position to help solve the security problems created by the significant expansion of electronic information.”
