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Torbay Care Trust chooses SanDisk encrypted USB flash drives for
secure data transfer
29 May 2009
Torbay Care Trust in Torquay has selected SanDisk’s Cruzer Enterprise
secure USB flash drives to help protect mobile data stored on the drives
from unauthorized access. The SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise flash drives use
data encryption and password-protection to safeguard confidential data
while providing the convenience of storing private data on portable USB
drives.
Torbay Care Trust is the only integrated community health and adult
social care organisation in South West England. The Trust is responsible
for commissioning community healthcare services, adult social care and
learning disability services.
The Trust has purchased and rolled out 1000 Cruzer Enterprise flash
drives. The flash drives will be used by all staff members, in
particular those employees working remotely or transferring data between
sites.
“We decided to deploy an encrypted USB solution across the Trust as
data security breaches have become a national concern,” said Sue
Fankhauser, IT buyer for Torbay Care Trust. “Our IT department felt that
it was necessary to employ a best-practice solution to protect data
against any potential threats and to reassure the public that patient
data is secured. After evaluating numerous encrypted flash drives, we
chose the Cruzer Enterprise flash drive because it met all of our
security requirements.
We also asked SanDisk to send us the USBs without any unnecessary
packaging — which they were more than happy to do. As well as being
environmentally friendly, this produced no waste at our end, helping to
support our eco-friendly policies.”
Recent data security breaches within other Government organisations
have led to calls for greater data security with transportable media
devices, such as data sticks, and by deploying the SanDisk drive, Torbay
Care Trust feels it is setting the standard for others to follow.
The flash drive imposes mandatory access control on all files,
storing them in a hardware-encrypted, password-protected partition. Data
is protected with advanced hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption. The
drives have a read speed of 24MB/sec and write speed of 20 MB/sec.
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