USB Drives Pose Security Threat: Erase Their Sensitive Data With Secure Delete 2.0: Financial News

USB Drives Pose Security Threat: Erase Their Sensitive Data With Secure Delete 2.0
Wednesday October 1, 2008 10:31 am ET

BURBANK, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 1, 2008 -- Diskeeper Corporation today announced that its newly released Undelete® 2009 data protection software now includes an electronic data shredding feature called SecureDelete® 2.0. This ensures formerly deleted files found on USB drives are rendered permanently unrecoverable, ensuring your information does not fall into the wrong hands when being passed from person to person.

"SecureDelete 2.0 is very useful for managing USB drives," notes Dr. Nitin Paranjape, Microsoft Office System MVP. "These may contain deleted versions of sensitive customer data. And you may end up revealing this data to an unrelated party during file sharing with the same USB. This scenario requires SecureDelete. The best practice is... when deleting information from USBs, always use SecureDelete."

Few realize it, but deleting files on a normal basis doesn't actually erase the data; it merely removes the pointer to that data on the disk thus allowing it to be overwritten. Behind the scenes, that data is still intact -- leaving otherwise sensitive corporate information vulnerable to viewing.

With new SecureDelete 2.0 (enabled by default in Undelete 2009), files that are secure deleted are immediately purged from the recovery bin and then overwritten using sophisticated bit patterns governed by the National Security Agency/Department of Defense. This renders the formerly accessible data gone -- forever.

But what of those files that have been "deleted" earlier in time and now reside in remnants across the drive's free space? SecureDelete 2.0 now has a Wipe Free Space feature that securely deletes all such free space and renders its file remnants equally unrecoverable.

So before you make that decision to repurpose, recycle or dispose of a USB drive -- ensure you have Undelete 2009 installed. And take full advantage of its SecureDelete 2.0 feature, including Wipe Free Space. Only then can your sensitive data truly be secure from entering into the wrong hands.

Additional Functionality:

On top of the product's SecureDelete 2.0 functionality, Undelete 2009 is a full blown data recovery application capable of salvaging all accidentally or maliciously deleted data on Windows systems (unless of course rendered unrecoverable by SecureDelete 2.0!).

Undelete 2009 Key Features:

 
--  SecureDelete 2.0, an electronic data shredder, ensuring confidential
    files and file remnants are permanently erased and unrecoverable from USB
    devices and hard drives. Includes Wipe Free Space.
--  Recovery Bin captures all deleted files (except those SecureDeleted).
--  Search Disk allows users to seek and recover accidentally deleted
    files easily.
--  Version Protection for Microsoft Office® Files provides instant
    recovery of earlier or "saved over" versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
    files.
--  InvisiTasking® processing technology performs Undelete's operations
    with zero overhead to ensure no performance hit.
--  Emergency Undelete® recovers files deleted before installing
    Undelete 2009.

Undelete 2009. Real-time protection. Real-time recovery(TM). Free trialware, pricing and further information are available at www.undelete.com. Languages include English, French and Japanese. Purchase Undelete 2009 today.

About Diskeeper Corporation -- Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies®:

With over 31 million licenses sold, home users to large corporations rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides real-time data protection and real-time data recovery with Undelete 2009.