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Article: UPEK Provides Authentication Solution for LaCie External Hard Drive with Encryption; LaCie Expands Line of SAFE Mobile Hard Drives With Fingerprint Authentication From UPEK by Incorporating Hardware Encryption.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- November 16, 2005
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BERKELEY, Calif. -- UPEK(R), Inc., the leading supplier of biometric fingerprint security solutions, today announced that LaCie has expanded its product line of SAFE Mobile Hard Drives protected by UPEK's TouchStrip Fingerprint Authentication Solution. The new SAFE Mobile Hard Drive incorporates two major pillars of information security, authentication and encryption, to safely protect large amounts of portable data. As with its predecessors, the SAFE Mobile Hard Drive with Encryption performs fingerprint authentication locally on the device instead of relying on the host PC, ensuring the highest level of security. Software running on the mobile hard drive facilitates ...