Future Systems Solutions Launches Casper Secure™ Drive Backup 3.0 for PGP® Whole Disk Encryption
First and Only PC Backup Solution Designed for Users of Whole Disk Encryption Technology Now Incorporates Major Performance and Usability Improvements.
Indianapolis, IN – September 29, 2011 - Future Systems Solutions, Inc. (www.fssdev.com) announces Casper Secure™ Drive Backup 3.0 for PGP® Whole Disk Encryption, a major upgrade to the first and only PC backup solution to confront the problems affecting users of whole disk encryption technology. While whole disk encryption technology ensures sensitive data remains fully secured on a PC, adopting this technology throughout an enterprise creates the necessity to adopt a viable disaster recovery program that does not compromise data security nor necessitate a separate restore and lengthy re-encryption process. Casper Secure Drive Backup was designed specifically to facilitate the rapid recovery of a failed PGP® WDE drive and eliminate these problems.
A Casper Secure Drive backup preserves all of the encrypted data in its original encrypted state, enabling employees to remain fully compliant with enterprise wide data security directives. In addition, Casper Secure Drive backup can be used immediately as a complete and permanent replacement of a failed drive or restored to a new drive without performing a separate, day-consuming re-encryption step. In contrast, traditional backup programs and disk imaging solutions fail to deliver the same level of security for a backup and make the recovery process unnecessarily difficult and tedious.
New in Casper Secure Drive Backup 3.0:
· PGP Administrative Policy Enforcement – enforces administrative policies through PGP Universal Server.
· New SmartStart™ Wizards – makes backing up or replacing a PGP Whole Disk Encrypted Windows system drive faster and easier than ever.
· SmartSense™ Disk Detection – jump starts the backup process by automatically detecting when a new portable disk or existing backup disk is attached to the computer.
· SmartSense™ Automatic Backups – fully automates maintaining a system backup on a portable drive.
· SmartRelease™ – automatically prepares a portable backup drive for safe removal after a backup.
· Enhanced AccuClone™ Technology – improves data migration to smaller drives, making migration to Solid State Drives even faster.
· Enhanced Solid State Drive and Advanced Format Drive Support – improves automatic detection and support of solid state and Advanced Format drives; adds support for drives greater than 2TB.
· USB 3.0 Support – complete support for booting a backup on USB 3.0 connected drives.
· New Usability Enhancements – including automatic suppression of Windows AutoPlay popups for portable backup drives and support for assigning custom names to hard disks.
Casper Secure Drive Backup 3.0 provides the following unique capabilities:
“Increasingly, businesses of all sizes have resorted to the use of whole disk encryption technology to safeguard data, raising the question ‘how can we be confident that every employee maintaining a backup is not violating a policy directive by exposing an unencrypted backup to unauthorized individuals?’ Although many companies have PC backup and restoration procedures in place, they are often impractical for employees working in the field, in satellite offices, traveling, or needing to respond to clients quickly. The recovery process with these systems necessitates a separate restore and time-consuming re-encryption that can easily require more than a day to complete. Consequently, these employees often resort to other backup and disk imaging tools that leave data unprotected on the backup. Addressing these significant problems, Casper Secure Drive Backup 3.0 for PGP Whole Disk Encryption is the only solution to create a complete backup of a PGP whole disk encrypted drive that retains the data in its original, encrypted state. Backups of confidential or private data cannot be accessed by unauthorized users,” said a company spokesman. He added, “And because the backup of a whole disk encrypted drive can be used immediately as a complete replacement for the original, or restored to a new drive without performing a separate, time-consuming re-encryption step, recovery is fast. In fact, a backup of a whole disk encrypted Windows system drive is immediately bootable after creation – even from external USB drives, which makes recovery near-instant and particularly beneficial for any employee using whole disk encryption to safeguard their laptops.”
Compatibility
Casper Secure Drive Backup 3.0 supports all versions of Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000.
Pricing and Availability
Casper Secure Drive Backup 3.0 is available for $89.95 from www.caspersecure.com or by calling 800-272-5457.
Registered owners of Casper Secure Drive Backup 2.0 may upgrade for $44.95. A thirty-day trial is available at www.caspersecure.com.
Companies interested in a site or enterprise-wide license, please contact enterprisesales@fssdev.com.
About Future Systems Solutions, Inc.
Future Systems Solutions develops and markets innovative software solutions for the PC. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, FSS also has offices in Atlanta, GA. Further information may be obtained by calling 800-272-5457, by visiting the FSS website at www.fssdev.com, or contacting Marty Rubenstein at press@fssdev.com.
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