The Kanguru Remote Management Console - Cloud Edition was recently reviewed at eSecurityPlanet.com.  We’d like to thank Lisa Phifer for thoroughly testing the platform and giving us great feedback and suggestions.  While this review provides a helpful tour of the platform, Kanguru is ready to help you evaluate for yourself and “try before you buy”.

 We would also like to respond to some of the feedback and give additional details where it might be helpful.

• To clarify pricing:  KRMC Cloud retails for $19.95 per drive per year, with volume licensing options available.  Optional BitDefender anti-virus renewal is $7.95 per drive per year.
• Linux and Mac OS compatibility will be available soon for Defender Elite flash drives.  This functionality will be added to existing hardware through a secure remote software update.
• Automatic license assignment is available for centralized provisioning.
• The ability to deactivate and disable onboard AV without Kanguru’s help will soon be available as a provisioning option.
• A number of the “wish items” are available in the more full-featured Enterprise version of KRMC.

Data Security, Portable Storage

Electron Hut reviews the Kanguru Defender Elite encrypted flash drive.

The Bottom Line: if you’re looking for a solid performer in the arena of encrypted flash drives, the Kanguru Defender Elite won’t let you down.

Thanks to Kyle at Electron Hut for the time and effort to evaluate the product!  We would like to highlight that the first year of anti-virus protection is free of charge with every Defender Elite purchased.

Data Security, Portable Storage

Government Computer News named the Kanguru eFlash one of its Best Products of 2009!

All this power and speed is packed into a drive the size of a cigarette lighter, a fitting analogy for something that is so smokin’.

Kanguru would like to thank the folks at the GCN Lab for taking the time to evaluate and review the eFlash.  We would also like to thank the other publications that reviewed the eFlash this year.

Stay tuned for great new products launching in 2010.

Data Backup, Government, Portable Storage

The Tech Report reviews the Kanguru eFlash - eSATA Flash Drive and discusses the state of the industry regarding USB3.0 and eSATA adoption.

So what about external Serial ATA? eSATA ports have slowly become common on even mid-range motherboards, and they’ve even popped up in a few laptops. The interface is plenty quick, too, offering transfer rates up to 300MB/s. But eSATA is just a data pipe, so it can’t provide connected drives with power. That has to come from an external source, which has typically involved bulky power adapters for eSATA enclosures that plug into wall sockets. Auxiliary cables are cumbersome at best, and they’re certainly not appropriate for pocket-sized flash drives.

Fortunately, a better solution exists. A hybrid eSATA/USB connector has been developed that elegantly melds USB and external Serial ATA plugs.

The eFlash once again scored highly on speed benchmarks and the PCI adaptor kit was noted as a “perfect addition” to the package.

Data Backup, Portable Storage

The Kanguru e-Flash has just been upgraded to 64GB of memory, making it the largest e-SATA flash drive available in the world.  With five times the transfer speed of an ordinary USB flash drive, the Kanguru e-Flash is perfect for large data transfers and backups.

Read the reviews here.

Visit our authorized resellers for more information.

Data Backup, Portable Storage

PC Magazine has given the Kanguru e-Flash four stars in a recent review.

It excelled even more with eSATA, with a 26.4-MBps write speed—an 86 percent boost in average write speed over USB 2.0. Read speeds jumped 27 percent to 32 MBps over eSATA.

View the speed test results here.

For a round-up of e-Flash reviews, see our previous post.  Last year, Kanguru Defender was reviewed with an early version of Kanguru Remote Management Console at Tom’s Hardware.

UPDATE (4/14/09):  Government Computer News has also published a review of the Kanguru e-Flash.

Scorecard:

 It looks ordinary at first but use it to transfer a gigabyte or two of data and you’ll realize that it almost has super powers.

Data Backup, Government

Healthcare provisions in the recently-passed spending bill add a data breach notification requirement for organizations covered by HIPAA.  HHS has 60 days to issue guidance on how to secure health information.  This is sure to include encryption for portable devices like USB Flash Drives.  If a breach is discovered and the data was not secured, the organization must notify anyone affected as well as the local media.

Public notification is not required if the data is shown to have been secure.  There are several ways to prove that the device was secured:

• Hardware-level encryption and 100% private partition - the user cannot accidentally save data in a public space, the encryption cannot be accidentally circumvented or removed by the user
• Remote management console - the administrator can show that the device is in compliance with current security policies including password strength and protection from brute-force attacks.

Remote management gives added protection when being audited.  Administrators can demonstrate that the missing device was remotely wiped at a precise date, time and location (by IP Address, Hostname and Domain).  The Kanguru Remote Management Console was reviewed last year by Tom’s Hardware.  Visit our webpage to learn about the features that have been added since that review.

Data Security, Healthcare