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“The next step in data security: Toshiba drives wipe themselves
Self-encrypting drives can detect when they are connected to the wrong host and automatically erase sensitive dataBy Leon Erlanger | InfoWorld
How do you protect sensitive corporate data stored on stolen laptops or multifunction printer drives? While Dell, HP, and other companies offer technologies and services that can wipe laptop hard drives remotely, they apply only if the drives are still in the original device. But for drives that have been removed and connected elsewhere, Toshiba has come up with a technology to address that very issue: self-encrypting drives (SEDs) that can be configured to automatically perform a second-generation data wipe when connected to an unknown host.”
