Sophos SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac

The Sophos company announced a new product line of Sophos Safeguard Disk Encryption for Mac which will provide reliable protection of the confidential worker and personal information stored in memory of the desktop Mac systems and the portable computers MacBook.

The products which are a part of a line of Sophos Safeguard Disk Encryption for Mac will allow to provide protection of both the separate MacBook notebook, and large corporate network which part tens of thousands of the Mac and Windows systems are.

The companies will be able to organize data protection in full accordance with requirements of industry and legislative standards, such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Sophos SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac uses reliable 256-bit algorithms of AES for posektorny enciphering of disk volumes, including boot volumes of Mac OS and sections with data.

Enciphering and interpretation of data is performed in real time. All process remains completely transparent for the user and does not assume pauses in daily business activity. Patent technologies of authentication of users (POA) will exclude the probability of unauthorized access to the ciphered information. The protected data will be unavailable even in case of extraction of the hard drive from the computer. Only users with authorized access and system administrators will be able to open and browse the ciphered files.

The users who forgot the password will be able to use disposable login credentials and alternative options of loading. Administrators will also be able to prepare the special USB carrier or a compact disk intended for the emergency loading of systems or access to the protected data in unforeseen situations.

For system deployment of protection of Sophos Safeguard Disk Encryption for Mac it is enough to specialists to install a small client component on each computer. The product has full compatibility with all existing platforms of administration of Mac-systems. All important events, for example, unsuccessful connection attempts to a system, are registered in the special magazine and are available to the subsequent studying and the analysis. The convenient management console will allow administrators to configure settings of a system of protection, without leaving the desktop, and support of scripts will allow to automate the majority of widespread transactions.