Standards created for hard drive encryption!

Six of the world's biggest hard drive manufacturers—Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital have announced their support for a broad set of standards aimed at creating common ground for full-drive encryption. The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), an industry body which promotes security measures including the use of unique master keys to secure the data on a computer.

Internal and external drives that adopt the standards set down by the TCG will require passwords when plugged into any computer, meaning data cannot be compromised by the physical theft of a laptop or storage device. Yet, these drives will remain interoperable with all standard computer hardware.Data security is becoming a legal requirement in many parts of the world for businesses and large enterprises.

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