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The beauty of the ID Control USB Token device is its simplicity and portability; plug it into any computer USB port, and it runs. With the ID Control USB come many portability and security features than any other flash drive, such as strong authentication, secure storage, application virtualization, online passwords and favourites management.

Strong authentication is enabled through the on-board password generator which issues a new one-time password (OTP) every time a user remotely and securely wants to log into the protected remote access of networks, applications and digital resources. At the same time the user’s credentials such as a digital certificate can be verified for strong authentication or used for digital signing purposes. The USB Token is PIN-protected and puts certificates, account and passwords, applications and other data on the move in a secure vault, since data is fully encrypted. Applications can be run virtually from the flash memory of the token which makes it a very small and secure multifunctional portable computing device. Onboard multiple online favourites with related accounts and passwords can be memorized so that with only one master password the user can log in to multiple websites and applications. Read the rest of this entry »

WizardRecovery Inc. announces the release of Disk Recovery Wizard, an update to a popular data recovery application for Windows PCs. The new release improves its recovery capabilities by adding extra file formats to PowerSearch operation, and boosts the number of supported file formats to 230.

Background

The company’s data recovery products, including Disk Recovery Wizard, rely on a sophisticated recovery engine called PowerSearch. PowerSearch uses a database of file signatures to detect known types of files during the disk scan. By performing full disk scans with database-fed signature detection, PowerSearch is able to successfully locate and recover files that no longer appear in the file system.

The database of recognizable file formats is essential for PowerSearch operation. The more formats it supports, the more types of files can be recovered from damaged, formatted and inaccessible storage media. The latest edition of Disk Recovery Wizard adds multiple new file formats to the database, boosting the number of recognizable types of files to around 230. The newest version of Disk Recovery Wizard can therefore recover more types of files than competition. Read the rest of this entry »

CygNET Systems Pvt. Ltd. has released USB CopyNotify!, a specialized windows network security software that raises a notification as soon as a USB storage drive is used on any computer on the network. By receiving immediate notifications when a USB drive is being plugged into any computer, prevention of unauthorized copying of confidential information is possible. The software also monitors data copy operations on USB drives, and creates a notification and a log entry containing the name of each file that is being copied. Notifications of the shut down or uninstall of the USB CopyNotify! program itself are also generated.

In a simple to install procedure, the Server component of the program is loaded on the computer that will be used to recieve all alerts of USB drive activity on the network while the Client component of the program is loaded on each computer that needs be monitored for USB drive activity. Each time a USB drive is added or removed from any monitored computer, the server component receives real time notifications of the same. In addition, the program also maintains an activity log that can be printed or used for detailed reporting at a later stage.

With its capability to provide real time notifications of portable USB drive activity on the network, USB CopyNotify! is best suited for business owners who want to make sure that unauthorized individuals cannot copy private information from thier computer network or for administrators who want to audit and monitor the USB ports on all of the computers on the LAN. Future enhancements for USB CopyNotify! include SMS notifications, support for Linux and Mac OSX computers, and detection of Wifi, BlueTooth, and IEEE 1394 devices.

USB CopyNotify! v. 1.3 runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. The free trial version will monitor up to three computers on the network. A 10-workstation license costs $ 110(US). License packs are also available for 25, 50, 100, and 200 computers, as well as license packages for larger networks.

About CygNET Systems Pvt. Ltd.:

Since 1997, CygNET Systems has completed more than 60 outsourced software development projects for clients worldwide. The company’s first off-the-shelf product, USB CopyNotify! helps companies, schools, and other institutions protect their data.

In addition to releasing USB CopyNotify!, the company is currently developing J.A.A.M. (Just Another Asset Manager), a network asset management application that will track software and hardware installations, as well as Internet activities on all computers on the network; TrakU, a subscription-based personal tracking service that keeps track of individuals’and vehicles’locations using GPS and GPRS; VIRTUComm, a plug and play virtual communication server that includes a Linux-based gateway, email server, firewall, and proxy server; and Network Profile Manager, a Vista Gadget that lets users move from network to network on their mobile computing devices and laptops, without having to reconfigure settings for each network.

Google is the world’s leading search engine, but can Google compete with PayPal and other established e-commerce providers? Selkie Software is putting Google to the test to see if customers will select the Google system if it’s discounted, instead of paying the regular amount with PayPal. This test will run to January 31, 2009. More details about money bag wallet products at Focalprice.com

With an eye to save consumers money while testing Google, Selkie Software is offering consumers the chance to use Google Checkout when purchasing any Selkie Software title, while receiving a discount on the purchase price. To test the popularity of Google Checkout and to encourage its adoption, Selkie Software is offering all customers 25% off the purchase price just for using Google Checkout. More details about plastic keychains products at Focalprice.com

“I know people might wonder why a small company like ours is prepared to promote a giant like Google,” said Online Marketing Assistant Jackie Renton, “the truth is, we benefit in terms of fees and bonuses, and it’s worth a try to see if customers will adopt Google as a payment system.”While Selkie Software still offers many traditional ways to pay, Google Checkout offers consumers ease of use and credit card protections. Google Checkout allows consumers to pay using all major credit cards as well as by check and other methods.

While Selkie Software will continue to accept other forms of payment, Google Checkout is the only method that will offer the discount during the test period.

Selkie Software is offering this discount for the entire suite of award-winning, unique software; Selkie Rescue Data Recovery, Selkie Freedom, Selkie Photo Recovery, Selkie Music Mover and Selkie Email Recovery.

Selkie Software is an essential part of any computer user’s toolkit. It’s a powerful break-through technology that by-passes broken Windows systems to access and recover data. Selkie Software uses Intelligent File Sorting to identify and prioritize files for recovery or migration, providing guaranteed successful retrieval or migration of all desktop data. Selkie Software works over a network, from a USB memory stick or computer-to-computer via cable and gives users the choice of push or pull capabilities. Selkie will recover all desktop files and migrate them to a new desktop in exactly the same order as they existed originally.

Selkie Software was designated an Emerging Technology for 2008 by Computer Reseller News (CRN) because of the valuable opportunities it provides home users, IT professionals, and large companies to save money, time, and data.

DiskInternals Uneraser undeletes erased files and folders, and recovers information lost from hard disks, external storage devices, and a variety of memory cards. Featuring proprietary data recovery algorithms such as PowerSearch, DiskInternals Uneraser is able to recover files and folders from severely damaged, formatted, repartitioned, and inaccessible media. PowerSearch performs comprehensive scan of the entire content of the disk or memory card being recovered in order to locate the beginning and end of each recoverable file. The technology matches information it reads from the disk against a built-in database of recognizable file formats, enabling DiskInternals Uneraser to detect the exact length and location of more than 150 types of files.

The free trial version of Uneraser with exFAT Recovery is available with full pre-recovery preview, enabling evaluation customers to get a free estimate of whether or not their files are recoverable.

The support of the new exFAT file system not only provides state-of-the-art data recovery to owners of of exFAT formatted devices such as SDXC and Memory Stick XC cards, but enables the users of older systems to read information from such cards even if their operating system does not support the new file system.

About exFAT

Released with Windows CE 6.0 and available as part of Windows Vista SP1, the exFAT file system extends the limits of the FAT file system used on many external storage devices such as memory cards, DVDs and high-resolution media. The new file system eliminated the 32 GB size limits and files per directory limits of the popular FAT32 system. Used with flash memory storage and other external devices, exFAT enables using extra-large volumes of up to 64 ZiB. In addition, exFAT takes care of fragmentation problems, and specifies fail-safe transaction mechanisms and access control lists (ACL) for user-based access restrictions to certain files and folders. In essence, exFAT is a light version of feature-rich yet computational-heavy NTFS file system specified for external storage.

The new Memory Stick XC format series (“XC series”) released on January 29, 2009, as well as SDXC memory cards are using the exFAT file system. The use of the new file system allows these memory card formats to achieve maximum 2TB capacity, 64 times larger than that of previously largest 32GB cards using FAT12/16/32.

About DiskInternals

Founded in 2003, DiskInternals is a modern software engineering company delivering latest data recovery technologies to ordinary computer users around the globe. Developing a wide range of high quality, award-winning disk and data recovery products, DiskInternals provides quality service to thousands of satisfied customers all over the world. Company’s data recovery products are renowned for their ease of use and excellent recovery rate.

ControlGuard Ltd., a leading Vendor of Enterprise Grade Endpoint Security solutions, has today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Cohort Technology to distribute its solutions, Endpoint Access Manager and Endpoint Access Manager SME.

ControlGuard’s Endpoint Access Manager offers a solution for managing, controlling, monitoring and logging how information is down and uploaded to USB memory sticks, wireless and portable devices as well as other portable storage and media in order to prevent information leakage from company networks. It secures the use of removable media and portable storage devices by defining and enforcing endpoint data protection policies, monitoring and auditing endpoint activities.

End Point Access Manager also has capabilities to support mobile and remote users, ensuring that mobile workforces are given the same protection for data leakage as office based staff.

Michael Stilger, Business Development Director EMEA for ControlGuard emphasised at a recent speech to IT and Teleco resellers at Mercedes World in Surrey, how crucial it is to protect your company data. “While portable data storage devices have increased worker productivity while mobile, the huge number and small size of storage devices makes them easy to lose or hide them and almost impossible to manage. As a result today’s data portability has increased the potential for data leakage, data theft and data breaches,” Stilger mentions.

Stilger is full of praise for the new Distribution partner and adds, “We are currently looking to expand our partner channel and with Cohorts focus on IP based solutions and security we increase our visibility to pro active resellers and can add a strong value add Distribution partner to our 100% Channel focused team. Cohort is also a perfect match for ControlGuard as they have recently taken on Distribution for PGP. ControlGuard’s solution offers “out of the box” integration with PGP and by aligning with Cohort we are generating a single point of sourcing this unique and very relevant solution that combines data leakage prevention with encryption for the channel.”

Grahame Smee, Managing Director of Cohort Technology added, “Our signing with ControlGuard allows us to offer our partners a more complete solution for the growing area of encryption and policy enforcement of data. By combining our expertise of PGP with the management and auditing capabilities of ControlGuard, we are continuing our mission of giving our reseller partners the tools to attack emerging and profitable markets.” Smee continued, “You only need to look at the news from the last few weeks to know how relevant and important these issues have become.”

About ControlGuard:

ControlGuard is a leading provider of enterprise-grade security solutions that protect, manage and secure enterprises from endpoint vulnerabilities like information leakage and data theft. The company’s flagship product, Endpoint Access Manager, manages the secure use of removable media and portable devices, also provides a solution to ensure mobile and remote users are kept secure when working on the move. ControlGuard sells its solution 100% via the channel and has worldwide over half a million pc installations.

eProvided, a thumb drive recovery and NAND data recovery company, looks back to when 1 GB hard drives seemed gigantic. Cutting edge NAND based storage devices are hitting the markets globally. 2TB hard drives cost less then $ 129.00. Now we join The Solid State Drive Revolution. SSD drives are mega-fast, moving data at 400MB-1.5GB/s. Better yet, the SD association has recently announced the SDXC; a 2TB memory card with read/write speeds of up to 104 megabytes per second! eProvided, celebrates 10 years in the industry in 2010 & aims to tackle any data loss from any damage to any of these cutting edge flash based devices. More details about office equipment supplies products at Focalprice.com

SSD drives use NAND Flash Memory, tiny surface mount chips that store data. Already consumers are witnessing the launch of SSD Raid Systems! The positives: These new types of flash memory storage devices, are lightning quick, have no moving parts, are super small and can handle extreme temperatures (-60F – 350F). The negatives: NAND flash wafers split or become damaged in many consumer devices. NAND flash storage drives are recoverable in the event of severe damage and loss of data. More details about office equipments products at Focalprice.com

eProvided states “If your USB drive is broken or the flash drive is split in half, losing your data is painful, yet flash memory data recovery is now a solution. Solid state drives (SSD) drives, digital camera memory, iPhones, cell phones, voice recorders, USB storage or anything with storage based or NAND flash memory is recoverable.” More details about sport & outdoor products at Focalprice.com

Flash memory manufacturers implement many NAND flash memory wafers into small spaces, leaving the device easy to break. Why develop a 64GB USB Flash Drive with eight 8GB NAND wafers when one could use a single 64GB wafer during the manufacturing of the device? Soon we will find 2TB USB sticks.

Advanced flash memory recovery is the process of rebuilding multiple sets of NAND flash dumps and unscrambling code. Then, taking the numerous unscrambled files and assembling them into one single disk image; voila, all user files are recovered just the way they were before.

PC Guardian, a premier manufacturer of computer and data security products, announced today the launch of its new USB Port Security System. The USB Port Security System reduces the risk of data leakage, data theft, computer viruses, and malware by physically locking and blocking the USB ports of a computer.

Capable of protecting single or multiple USB ports in various configurations, the USB Port Security System offers effective, instant, maintenance-free data protection and eliminates the burden of software installation and compatibility. In addition, it provides continued, secure access for authorized USB devices by capturing the device’s cable and locking it into the USB port.

The USB Port Security System was developed in response to the ever increasing threat of unauthorized data transfer through USB ports to flash drives, memory sticks, MP3 players, and other mobile storage devices. “With the proliferation of inexpensive mobile drives and storage devices on the market today, data theft and data leakage is a top concern of our customers” said Ann Laurenson, President and CEO of PC Guardian. Continued Laurenson, “Our new USB Port Security System provides a simple and effective alternative to expensive software installations. It effectively blocks USB port access, yet does not impede productivity by allowing secure, continued access of authorized devices such as a keyboard and mouse.It’s the perfect baseline security solution for administrators looking to secure vulnerable workstations from internal or external threats.”

The USB Port Security System is compatible with most USB ports on the market today. The push-button lock installs in seconds and is available in different keying options to meet corporate and individual needs. Multiple configurations are available to secure from one to seven USB ports. PC Guardian’s USB Port Security System ships starting February 20th. MSRP: $ 12.95 – $ 71.95 depending on configuration and components.

About PC Guardian

PC Guardian is the leading designer and manufacturer of computer and data security solutions for corporations, resellers and distributors. Protecting corporate assets with patented, award winning products since 1984, PC Guardian has successfully served Fortune 1000 companies by solving their security needs and ensuring compliance through innovative products, quality, integrity, and commitment to exceptional service and results. PC Guardian products can be found in corporations worldwide.

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We buy all types of storage media such as SDLT, DLT, LTO, ½” 3570, 3590, 9840 and 9940 cartridges, 4mm, DDS, 8mm, AIT, Mammoth AME, optical media, compact flash and secure digital cards, memory sticks and multi-media cards, other data storage supplies, equipment and devices. More details about sanrenmu products at Focalprice.com

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All data is destroyed using cartridge and drive manufacturer approved processes prior to ever being read or written to.

Data Destruction Certificates and Confidentiality/Non-Disclosure Agreements available at no charge. We guarantee the security and confidentiality of your data. We handle tens of thousands of tapes each month. We pay cash for all kinds of storage media supplies.

Please contact us for additional information about our services, our buy-back list, and a sample Confidentiality/Non-Disclosure Agreement to ensure the security of your data.

Yet another headline story today confirmed the loss of enormous amounts of un-encrypted confidential data due to the loss of a computer memory stick (4). Government data loss and data leakages related to lost or stolen computer memory sticks are now commonplace with the latest incident being described as a ‘massive failure’ (4), this case and many other similar incidents present ‘systemic failures’ (5), as organizations fail to recognize the risks surrounding portable data storage.

With over 250 million USB flash drives sold in the last three years (1), electronic data is on the move. But despite the convenience of portable data storage, such devices pose a fundamental security threat to organizations and individuals.

The Identity Theft Resource Centre have reported that so far in 2008, data on the move (laptops, thumb drives, PDA’s etc) accounts for 20.2% of data exposures, leading to data theft (2). In 2007 nearly half of all cases were related to missing or stolen devices (2). Despite these statistics, the European Network and Information Security Agency stated that the security of USB sticks is often neglected under organizational policies, with severe lack in security controls (3) due to the complexities of encrypting portable data. So potentially sensitive information is being left unsecured upon such devices, which can easily be lost, stolen or compromised.

Security specialists at DriveSentry have today announced the imminent release of their revolutionary removable device protection. Combining drag and drop portable 256-bit AES encryption and standalone next generation antivirus protection, ‘DriveSentry GoAnywhere’ provides a simple, cost effective, portable security solution for all removable devices including USB memory sticks.

With powerful encryption technology, DriveSentry GoAnywhere provides an effortless approach to securing your identity, your privacy, and your data. Top secret level 256-bit AES technology allows users to encrypt data on both their GoAnywhere device and any Microsoft Windows host system, leaving encrypted files locked, even if the PC or removable device is lost or stolen. DriveSentry GoAnywhere also uniquely provides standalone antivirus protection, pre configured to protect all portable data from viruses and malicious infection, no matter what PC the device is connected to.

John Safa, CTO at DriveSentry commented, ‘any removable USB device can be turned in to a secure storage device by installing DriveSentry GoAnywhere. So there will soon be no more excuses’.

About DriveSentry Inc.

DriveSentry is a pioneer in next generation security 2.0 antivirus software for hard drives that protect digital assets and personal data. The company was founded in 2005 with a mission to provide zero-day protection against new and emerging security threats. DriveSentry was recently commended for its innovative approach to IT security, after receiving a medal in the Information Security and Data Management Project Award category at the 2007 BCS IT Industry Awards. DriveSentry has received the accolade of Checkmark Certification, the world’s fastest growing certification system for information security products and services. Checkmark Certification is awarded following an independent assessment of the performance of security software carried out by the West Coast Labs Technology Forum, a group of senior IT security professionals from major corporate organizations around the world.