StrongDisk Pro
StrongDisk Pro is an encrypting data protection system. It provides protection for the data stored on hard drive and removable media and can be used on workstations, home computers or notebooks.
StrongDisk Pro also includes additional utilities designed to prevent secret data leakage through the holes in operating systems security.
StrongDisk Pro creates encrypted logical disks inside file system with a password- and an external keys- protected access to them. By installing StrongDisk Pro on your computer you can make it sure that no one who enters the room while you are absent reads a file that is not supposed to be read by her. Moreover, even if your computer is stolen or seized access to the information that were protected with StrongDisk Pro is next to impossible since it requires participation of a professional cryptographer possessing enormous computing resources.
A protected disk that is created by StrongDisk Pro is physically just a file that can be stored in any folder on any disk that is available to Windows. A driver that comes with StrongDisk Pro allows the operating system to use this file (so called disk image file) as a separate logical disk. For the operating system a StrongDisk Pro protected disk is not in any way different from for example a CD-ROM or an Iomega Zip drives. After mounting and assigning a letter to it (for example disk Z:) you can use a protected disk just like any other: you can create folders and files, share it into local network, check it with ScanDisk, optimize it with defrag utility and even format by Windows means. Data from the disk is encrypted and decrypted at the moment when it is written to or read from the disk. A protected disk will also be available from MS-DOS prompt if it is launched from Windows. The fact that a protected disk is just a file can be used to widen StrongDisk Pro application sphere. You can send protected disks via Email as attachments and you can create protected CD-ROM.
Let us also note that using StrongDisk Pro not only reduces accessibility of the protected data but also conceals its very presence. When a protected disk is not mounted there is no direct indication to its existence. So a person that is far from computer technologies and does not know what StrongDisk Pro is (for example a thief who stole a notebook) maybe will not even notice that there is secret data in the computer. |
