Why Purchase Ciphertex Storage?

Portable data security – Portability with industry leading encryption is the top reason customers purchase Ciphertex data storage over “cheap” hard drives that aren’t as reliable, fast, or secure.

Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption provides fast encryption and decryption enforced by a hardware key that cannot be duplicated, replaced, or broken ensuring data is never at risk even if the storage is lost or stolen.

Speed of acquiring and accessing data – the faster the download/upload times – the faster one can move onto the next project.

Large data storage capacity and the ability to create multiple LUNs in the array and duplicate the existing (non-portable) environment allow easy, accurate data capture.

Network ready with multiple network interfaces (USB 2.0, USB 3.0, Firewire 800/400, eSATA, GbE, 10GbE) to easily collect data and upload it into a data center.

Multiple operating system supports means that the data that needs to be collected can be accessed in the format it has been stored in by the application and the operating system.

AES 256-bit Encryption

With Ciphertex portable, AES 256-bit hardware-encrypted disk drives, RAID arrays, and NAS control access to the disk drive content from pick up to delivery through the security of a physical key. In recent years there have been numerous reports of confidential data such as customers' personal records being exposed through loss or theft of laptops or backup drives. Encrypting such files helps protect them should physical security measures fail. Even a single failure to encrypt sensitive data can result in a security breach with criminal or civil liabilities and irreparable harm to finances and the reputation of the organization.

Disk encryption can also be useful if you replicate data to a shared disaster recovery facility that is less secure than your primary site by not transferring the keys to the remote site until you actually need to use the data there.

The AES 256 specification is the highest level of encryption available today and is recognized by the US government, and governments around the globe, as the preferred standard for protecting their most highly classified documents. The most important reason data isn’t protected is that companies fail to use encryption. AES 256-bit encryption cannot be broken by brute force for another 250 years before computers are predicted to be fast enough to even attempt a massively distributed attack. To give you an idea how big 256 bits is, it’s roughly equal to the number of atoms in the universe!

 

 

Awards

Small to medium-sized storage systems have been popping up everywhere these days, but security for those easily "relocated" storage systems has usually been an afterthought; if it's even being considered at all. Our Best Startup Winner--Ciphertex--may be one of the first SMB storage companies that take data security just as seriously as the other key storage variables of price, performance and data protection. We must say, it's always refreshing when companies look at the big picture when developing their product strategy.

 

 

Digital Video magazine, published by NewBay Media, announced Ciphertex CX-10K-NAS as a Best of Show Black Diamond Award winner of the 2012 NAB Show.