Three Data Security Resolutions for 2025
2025 is the year to make critical changes – whether you’ve never considered your personal data security before or have been meaning to do so for a while. Cybersecurity threats such as spamming, phishing, and ransomware are real-world dangers that every internet user faces daily. Passwords continue to leak in massive corporate data breaches, and […]
How Can You Permanently Erase Data on Hard Drives, SSDs and USB Drives?
By leveraging its encryption-based erasure mechanism, you can ensure that sensitive information is permanently destroyed and irretrievable.
Why Is Hardware-Based Encryption the Ultimate Data Protection?
If you lose your device, or work with sensitive business data, or are a small business with limited resources to secure data, Opal Lock ensures that your data remains secure and inaccessible without your authentication.
Understanding Opal Lock Encryption, Recovery, and Setup
Opal Lock offers robust encryption and security for self-encrypting drives (SEDs), ensuring data protection across a wide range of compatible devices. To help you get started, we’ve broken down some common questions into an easy-to-understand guide. Opal Lock is compatible with TCG drives, which are designed to meet industry security standards. If you’re unsure whether […]
Protecting Your Data from E-Waste Hackers
Opal Lock offers the ideal solution for ensuring that your sensitive information is permanently deleted, protecting against both data breaches and environmental hazards.
A Closer Look at Data Disposal Vulnerabilities
The growing reliance on electronic storage media presents significant challenges when it comes to secure data disposal. Companies and institutions across industries are facing vulnerabilities in their practices, which, if left unchecked, can lead to data breaches, loss of sensitive information, or even corporate espionage. Even the FBI is facing challenges with the management and […]
Stop Data Breaches Due to Stolen Laptops
In a recent incident, Boston Children’s Hospital faced a significant data breach after a laptop was stolen from a staff member attending a conference in Buenos Aires. The laptop, although password-protected, was not encrypted, leaving sensitive patient information vulnerable. The stolen laptop contained an email attachment with the names, medical record numbers, birth dates, diagnoses, […]
Secure Data Erasure Meets Sustainability
Choose Opal Lock to ensure that your data is securely erased without compromising on sustainability – an essential step toward protecting both your information and the planet.
How Secure Are Your Current Data Erasure Methods?
In the realm of digital forensics, one unsettling truth has emerged: the methods we’ve relied on for decades to erase data from drives are no longer secure. For years, it was widely accepted that overwriting a hard drive three to seven times would effectively render the data unrecoverable. However, advancements in data recovery technology have […]