Yesterday the top six disk drive manufacturers (essentially all of them) published final specifications for common full-device encryption standards through the Trusted Computing Group. This opens the door for a world where storage devices with encryption are as common as automobiles with seat belts. Encryption will become part of the definition of what a storage device is.
Media independent
The new standards are just as applicable to an SSD as a disk drive. This is important because enterprise systems will increasingly combine different storage media types within storage systems and even within devices – as well as a small but growing set of flash-based notebook PCs.
Application independent
The new standards cover storage in consumer and office desktop PCs and notebooks as well as data center servers and storage systems.
Just like seat belts, expect to see mandates for businesses to use fully-encrypted storage in the future to help deal with the growing stream of sieve-like data thefts and losses across the business landscape. It’s already the law for parts of the Government sector.
Who’s using encrypted storage devices today? Are you required to by law? Let us know.
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