The Trusted Computing Group Storage Technical Working Group has been leading the digital storage industry in the introduction of storage security built into individual storage devices.

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"For over 30 years, Seagate has been the trusted provider of reliable storage technology to companies of all sizes, " said Terry Cunningham senior vice president, Seagate Branded Solutions and i365.

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The user could choose to let it in LinkedIn (for example, the status updates, very public and short lived, can stay), or choose some other digital asset storage provider (for example, the sensitive connections data would go to another storage provider, more trusted by the user).

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If such hack-attacks are not subdued when aimed at massive central information-storage servers, can the cloud be trusted?

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The Microsoft Windows 8 operating system will bring the Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs, the basis of storage device-based encryption security as well as additional security features) to wider use for enterprise applications.

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The Trusted Computing Group, as well as leading companies in the storage devices security industry, have initiated moves to move encrypted security from the realm of individual storage devices to network storage.

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