Kanguru’s Emmett Jorgensen was just featured in Government Security News (GSN) as a guest columnist with an article entitled “Flash Drive Security goes beyond Encryption“.
The article has an infosec focus on newer developments in flash drive security including remote management, on-board anti-virus and more. Here is a short excerpt: Read more…
An excellent article was recently posted on Security Week regarding the use of encryption to prevent data breaches. As we’ve pointed out in the past, encryption should be mandatory in any instances where sensitive data is being handled. By requiring the use of encryption, IT and Infosec professionals can save their organizations time and money in the long term.
The Security Week article, entitled “The Encryption Advantage: Simple Steps to Protect your Valuable Information” does an excellent job of illustrating how using encryption can prevent costly fines.
Here is an excerpt: Read more…
As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), Kanguru has joined staysafeonline.org as a champion partner to help educate and extend awareness of cyber security and privacy issues. We encourage our partners and customers to join in to spread awareness of cyber security and help to educate the public on ways to stay safe online and with their personal data.
As part of our efforts, we will be doing a free educational webinar later this month and providing some promotions on our secure, encrypted flash drives.
Stay tuned for additional information.
Our friends over at BitDefender have released a new Internet Security Suite. Checkout the review over on Infosec Island.
While you’re at it, also checkout Kanguru’s secure, encrypted flash drives featuring onboard BitDefender Anti-Virus for protecting your flash drives from malware.
If you’re a fan of the comic strip Dilbert and work in IT or Infosec, this comic is for you.
(Marketing note - Must find a way to introduce Dilbert to Kanguru’s secure flash drives with onboard anti-virus!)
Flash drives have revolutionized the business world with their convenience and portability; however, for infosec professionals, flash drives are a dual edged sword. Their tiny size often makes them easy to lose and their storage capacity allows massive amounts of potentially sensitive data to be stored and transported on them.
If lost or stolen, a single unencrypted flash drive has the potential to cause a massive data breach.
So how can infosec professionals deal with flash drives? Read more…
German distributor OPTIMAL System-Beratung will be showcasing Kanguru’s secure, encrypted storage devices at the upcoming IT Security Expo, IT-SA in Nuremberg, Germany, October 11-13th.
On hand will be the Kanguru Defender Elite secure, encrypted flash drives, Kanguru Remote Management Console (KRMC), and RocIT Defender Virtual OS on an encrypted thumb drive as well as next generation storage products.
Kanguru’s encrypted flash drives are some of the world’s most secure; offering 256-bit hardware encryption, onboard anti-virus, tamper resistant designs, optional remote management and more.
The Kanguru Defender Elite is also currently undergoing Common Criteria testing. The Common Criteria testing level has been designated as Evaluation Assurance Level 2 Augmented (EAL2+); meeting level 2 assurances while being augmented with flaw remediation. The testing is being overseen by the German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI)).
OPTIMAL System-Beratung is a value added distributor with focus on client management and workflow, document management and IT security.
Register for the event here.
Kanguru is pleased to announce that we have been chosen to provide a Quebec Provincial Government Healthcare Office with secure flash drives and remote management software. The Kanguru Defender V2 encrypted flash drives will help keep their patient data safe and secure and also help them meet regulations relating to data security and privacy.
This is the latest of several secure thumb drive standardizations Kanguru has recently been involved with across the government, healthcare, and financial industries.
OHIO - News Talk Radio Whio.com reports that the Montgomery County Department of Job and Family Services has lost a flash drive containing the personal information of 1,200 people. The drive contained the names and social security numbers of people serviced at the Transition Center on Dryden Road in Moraine between 2005 and 2010.
It is not indicated whether the thumb drive, missing since August, was encrypted or not. The county, however, is offering one year of free identity protection for those whose information might have been compromised.
For the full story, click here.
Kanguru has added OpenSUSE compatibility to the list of operating systems supported by the Kanguru Defender Elite line of secure, encrypted USB thumb drives.
OpenSUSE, a derivative of Linux, is a free open source operating system used and supported by the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.
The Kanguru Defender Elite is the only enterprise level hardware encrypted flash drive that has Graphical User Interface (GUI) support for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Operating Systems, including the OpenSUSE distribution.
To read the full press release, click here.
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