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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Imation Unveils Defender H200 Biometric Drive

While data integrity forms the most basic requirement for data storage. The more portable forms of storage also require better security in the form of data encryption. Imation has launched the Defender H200 Biometric external hard drive that provides stringent security for businesses and professionals seeking uncompromising approach at data encryption.
The Defender H200 has a two stage authentication system that requires anyone accessing the hard drive to input a password as well as pass fingerprint verification using the inbuilt biometric scanner on the drive. The USB 2.0 portable hard drive delivers FIPS 140-2, level 3 hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption through a dedicated cryptographic processor, which supports up to 10 secure user accounts.

In simple English, that means it will take a very powerful number cruncher and a long, long time to crack the authentication system with a brute force attack. Hackers trying to employ the hardware route are claimed to be thwarted by the tamper proof metal chassis that houses the drive. The 500GB hard drive is priced at Rs. 19,500.

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