STATE OF WASHINGTON’S DIVISION OF CHILD SUPPORT SELECTS SANDISKS SECURE FLASH DRIVES AND MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Confidential
Financial And Legal Data Now Secured With SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise
USB Flash Drives, Managed By SanDisk CMC Server
Software
MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, February
25, 2008 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today
announced that the State of Washington's Division of Child Support
has selected SanDisk's Cruzer® Enterprise secure USB
flash drives and Central Management & Control (CMC) server
software to protect highly confidential client data at its
headquarters and in 10 field offices statewide.
The Division of Child Support (DCS) administers
state and federal child support laws, including the collection of
child-support payments from non-custodial parents. DCS manages
about 350,000 active child-support cases and collects about $700
million per year in child-support payments.
"With the many recent reports of data loss and theft involving
government agencies around the world, we are pleased to help DCS
respond to security problems before they happen," said Roy Ramati,
vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Division at
SanDisk. "DCS employees don't have to give up the convenience of
carrying data on flash drives, while the division's information
technology (IT) staff knows that data is password-protected and
encrypted - and that Cruzer Enterprise drives can be easily managed
with CMC, even in field offices far from headquarters."
DCS, part
of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services,
gathers highly confidential information - including Internal
Revenue Service tax returns, employer records, criminal histories
and even U.S. State Department passport data - in pursuing its
collection efforts. Protecting this data from unauthorized access
and improper use is crucial.
As one element of its data security strategy, DCS last month
purchased 200 Cruzer Enterprise drives along with SanDisk's CMC
software for managing the complete lifecycle of those drives. The
secure flash drives are being provided to unit supervisors, who
manage collection teams in DCS field offices. The master CMC
console for provisioning and managing the drives will be at DCS
headquarters in Olympia, Wash., with sub-administrators in each DCS
field office.
Cruzer Enterprise protects all files stored on the drive with
advanced hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption. Users are also
required to create a complex password during the set-up process.
The combination of encryption and password protection makes it
extremely difficult for unauthorized users to access data if the
drive is lost or stolen. Cruzer Enterprise is also fast, with read
speed of 24 megabytes (MB) per second and write speed of 20
MB/sec1.
CMC server software provides lifecycle management for Cruzer
Enterprise drives, including password recovery and renewal through
the network, remote termination of lost drives, central back-up and
restore, and central usage tracking. This means data is not lost
when a drive is lost, and IT administrators can provision a
replacement flash drive with user files stored on the
network.
ControlGuard, a leading provider of enterprise-grade security
solutions and a member of the SanDisk Enterprise Solutions
Technology Alliance (SESTA), managed the sale of CMC to the
Division of Child Support.
"ControlGuard and SanDisk together offer powerful tools to convert
USB flash drives from security threats into security assets," said
David Raanan, chief marketing officer of ControlGuard. "We applaud
the State of Washington's Division of Child Support for showing
true leadership in protecting confidential data."
SanDisk's Enterprise Division provides IT managers with a
comprehensive hardware and software solution to meet the ongoing
threat of data leakage from insecure network endpoints. More
information on SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise and SanDisk CMC software
is available online at:
www.sandisk.com/enterprise.
SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and world's largest supplier of
flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory - from
research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and
retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash
memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders;
digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the
enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state
drives for computers. SanDisk (www.sandisk.com/corporate)
is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half
its sales outside the United States.
1Based on SanDisk internal
testing; performance may be lower depending upon host device. 1
megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes.
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