Data security features in the Intel® Solid-State Drive 320 Series
With PCs continuing to grow and users storing more data than ever before, consumers are more susceptible to losing valuable information. Protection of a user’s data benefits from multiple tiers of security. While one tier helps protect against malicious software attacks, another tier involves the physical protection of stored data in the event that a PC is lost or stolen. This technology brief describes how the Intel® Solid-State Drive 320 series (Intel® SSD 320 series) uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and ATA drive password to add a physical security layer to help protect a user’s data.
No protection is bad protection
Typical storage drives do not alter the data they receive. The devices simply take the data sent to them by the host and write it to the storage media. In the event that a PC is accidentally lost or stolen, the data is not protected and anyone who can access the media can read out the data. But what if that data was scrambled such that accessing the media would return gibberish instead of data? This is the idea of encryption.
Encryption in the Intel SSD 320 series
Encryption converts data to an unintelligible form. The only way to decrypt the data to its original form is by the use of a special key.
This encryption/decryption feature has now been added to Intel’s solid-state drive product line with the implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in the Intel SSD 320 Series. This encryption standard, defined in the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 197, is widely accepted and used in the PC industry for encryption of user data.
Physical security layer of protection
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Data security features in the Intel® Solid-State Drive 320 Series
With PCs continuing to grow and users storing more data than ever before, consumers are more susceptible to losing valuable information. Protection of a user’s data benefits from multiple tiers of security. While one tier helps protect against malicious software attacks, another tier involves the physical protection of stored data in the event that a PC is lost or stolen. This technology brief describes how the Intel® Solid-State Drive 320 series (Intel® SSD 320 series) uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and ATA drive password to add a physical security layer to help protect a user’s data.
No protection is bad protection
Typical storage drives do not alter the data they receive. The devices simply take the data sent to them by the host and write it to the storage media. In the event that a PC is accidentally lost or stolen, the data is not protected and anyone who can access the media can read out the data. But what if that data was scrambled such that accessing the media would return gibberish instead of data? This is the idea of encryption.
Encryption in the Intel SSD 320 series
Encryption converts data to an unintelligible form. The only way to decrypt the data to its original form is by the use of a special key.
This encryption/decryption feature has now been added to Intel’s solid-state drive product line with the implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in the Intel SSD 320 Series. This encryption standard, defined in the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 197, is widely accepted and used in the PC industry for encryption of user data.
Physical security layer of protection
Read the full Data Security Features Technology Brief.
