Toshiba Secured Biometrics
May 9, 2008 — SMallard
The new hard disk drive comes with an array of sophisticated protection and security features: besides the spill-proof enclosure, SecuRed has an integrated Free Fall Sensor. It detects free falls, shocks or vibrations in all directions. On sensing this, it rapidly moves the HDD head from between the platters and prepares for impact, protecting valuable data. After the incident the user is able to log back on and access all the data without any problems.
Besides protection against outside influences Toshiba attached great importance on securing stored data against unauthorised usage. The integrated fingerprint sensor allows only the authorised person to access the stored data and files. Password authentication based on a powerful AES-256 algorithm and an embedded software engine which supports hard disk encryption enables very strong data security. Source
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