http://www.deadondemand.com/rss/feeds/edtnews.xml A collection of EDT's latest press coverage as well as EDT Press Releases. http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081015/BUSINESS/310159953/-1/business This is the third year for the award. Last year's winner was UltraVision Security Systems of Salem, for its covert intruder detection system, while the 2006 winner was Concord's Nanocomp, which makes yarns and fabrics out of carbon nanotubes. The semifinalists were chosen by seven state technology business owners or investors. 15 Oct 2008 12:30:00 EST http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20080528006243/en EDT has been sponsored to participate by The United States Air Force and The United States Department of Defense in CWID 2008. CWID is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's annual event that allows combatant commands, services, Department of Defense and other government agencies the ability to evaluate new and emerging technologies capable of being placed into an operational environment within 12-18 months following the execution period. 25 May 2008 14:22:00 EST http://www.cio.com/article/332363/Data_Security_Tips_for_CIOs_Wiping_the_Hard_Drive A CIO responsible for donating end-of-life computers shares her experiences with data security technology and managing used technology in a secure and environmentally friendly way. 10 Apr 2008 09:30:00 EST http://www.deadondemand.com/assets/documents/pressroom/hipaa_final_security_rule.pdf The need to properly sanitize hard drives before they are disposed of or redeployed has become critical for those governed under HIPAA. Secure Erase and EDT's Digital Shredder are discussed amoung the other methods of hard drive sanitization. 26 Mar 2008 12:30:00 EST http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20080317005828/en Ensconce Data Technology (EDT), creators of the Dead on Demand products and Best Practice Solutions, today announced a three-year agreement with Unisys (NYSE: UIS) to make the Digital Shredder Appliance available on the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement IV (SEWP) contract. This contract provides the entire federal government and their authorized prime contractors access to EDT's Digital Shredder, a best practice solution for end-of-life hard drive sanitization. 17 Mar 2008 08:00:00 EST http://advice.cio.com/roger_detzler/is_your_hard_drive_data_really_gone As the most widely used storage medium today, it is no wonder hard drives represent one of the biggest security challenges. This article explores the methods available to sanitize hard drives today. 19 Feb 2008 08:30:00 EST It's there, somewhere deep within the bowels of your local hospital: that storage closet full of old IT equipment, its hard drives replete with patient health and financial data. Uncertainty about compliance with HIPAA and other privacy laws, and the lack of budget to deal with equipment at the end of its life, mean many health-care organizations are unsafely stockpiling old equipment. 06 Feb 2008 14:30:00 EST Different data destruction technologies give service providers different options for destroying customers' data -- with varying levels of success. To ensure data destruction, service providers should look to appliance-based digital shredders using purge technology. 02 Jan 2008 13:30:00 EST http://www.crn.com/storage/202803324 Ensconce Data Technology (EDT) thinks solution providers should get hefty double-digit margins for shredding data. The Portsmouth, N.H. company, founded in 2002, markets a Digital Shredder system built around technology used by the U.S. military that destroys hard drive data beyond forensic recovery. With companies facing a new wave of government data compliance and security regulations, EDT is looking for solution providers that want to add end-of-life data solutions to their security and storage practices. 12 Nov 2007 08:45:00 EST http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2210273,00.asp Safeguarding data means more than just limiting its access; it also means destroying old data when it has reached the end of its life. 31 Oct 2007 10:00:00 EST Deliver the best of breed in terms of data protection to your clients. If you are a VAR and deal with data protection learn how you can deliver a proven solution that addresses key market needs. 24 Sep 2007 09:30:00 EST http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=45364 Ensconce Data Technology (EDT), a global data destruction security vendor located in Portsmouth, N.H., is looking to expand its reseller base by finding partners to deploy its Digital Shredder, a device that destroys hard drive data beyond forensic recovery. 03 Oct 2007 10:42:00 EST http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2007/0806sec1.html In my most recent column, I briefly reviewed the seriousness of the data remanence problem on discarded disk drives. Today I want to wrap up with a pointer to an interesting product about which I have recently learned: Ensconce Data Technology's Digital Shredder. 07 Aug 2007 09:30:00 EST http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/CeBIT-Emerging-technologies-honoured-/0,139023166,339275248,00.htm ZDNet Australia held the inaugural Emerging Technology Innovation Awards last night in conjunction with CeBIT. Taking top honours was The Demand Digital Shredder. 03 May 2007 06:30:00 EST http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43577-1.html According to industry estimates, more than 200 million hard drives with an estimated life of five years each were shipped in 2002. Do the math and you can see that a whole lot of drives are approaching the end of their useful lives. 30 Apr 2007 16:30:00 EST http://www.deadondemand.com/assets/documents/pressroom/pr_australia.pdf Austrailian Organizations are now able to acquire the latest in data destruction technology. The EDT Dead on Demand Digital Shredder is a portable IT appliance that offers a fail-safe solution for sanitizing hard drives. This cutting edge technology was developed by Ensconce Data Technology of the United Sates. 29 Mar 2007 08:45:00 EST http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/techexec/2007/0326techexec1.html The solution Sean now recommends to his customers is an appliance called the Digital Shredder from Ensconce Data Technology. The Digital Shredder appliance doesn't destroy the drive as the name "shredder" suggests. Instead, it uses a little known feature called Secure Erase that is quietly built into the two most common disk drive interface standards, ATA (also known as IDE) and SATA. 26 Mar 2007 09:50:00 EST http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Feature/73076,how-james-bond-would-wipe-his-hard-drive.aspx "Your mission, should you choose to accept it," These classic words would often prelude the espionage action of the Mission Impossible TV shows and films, where spies were given secret instructions that destroyed themselves completely. Surprisingly, technology like this is now becoming commercialised for ordinary companies. A new product called the EDT Digital Shredder promises fast, neat and total destruction of data, without damaging the drive electronics for re-use. 02 Feb 2007 09:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401516.html A growing number of products make the idea a reality for lost or stolen laptops, PDAs, and cell phones. Some software will wipe clean a hard drive or memory card that falls into the wrong hands. Some hard drives have a so-called poison pill to physically destroy the drive if it has been tampered with. 24 Apr 2006 09:30:00 EST http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB111928757574864209-U7toSckuKJ78gFAiqakdXKEFSOM_20050723.html?mod=blogs Companies looking to protect sensitive data on stolen gadgets are taking a page from Hollywood, with hard drives that destroy themselves when picked up by a thief, software that remotely zaps documents from a desktop computer and technology that scrubs clean handheld devices when the wrong password is entered too many times. 23 Jun 2005 10:15:00 EST http://www.seacoastonline.com/2005news/01272005/business/61336.htm This memorable line from "Mission: Impossible" has gone from television fiction to information age fact. It's an evolutionary step that could mean big things for Ensconce Data Technology because the company has developed and begun selling data destruction software and hardware. 27 Jan 2005 07:30:00 EST