PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ensconce Data Technology (EDT), creators of the Dead on Demand™ products and Best Practice Solutions, today announced a three-year agreement with Unisys (NYSE: UIS - News) to make the Digital Shredder Appliance available on the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement IV (SEWP) contract. This contract provides the entire federal government and their authorized prime contractors access to EDT’s Digital Shredder, a best practice solution for end-of-life hard drive sanitization.To kick off its relationship with Unisys, EDT’s Vice President of Government Solutions, Bruce Stimon, will demonstrate the Digital Shredder at the Unisys’ booth (number 1030) at the 2008 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference in San Diego the week of March 17th.
“We are pleased to offer this best-in-class solution to our federal clients through the NASA SEWP-IV program,” said Tom Conaway, managing partner for homeland security, Unisys. “EDT’s Digital Shredder offers a portable and more efficient alternative to traditional sanitization methods, ensuring secure business operations across the enterprise.”
Eliminating end-of-life data on hard drives is becoming a greater security challenge as hard drive capacity demand continues to shorten technology life cycles. Strict government data compliance and OMB security mandates have addressed Information Assurance as a whole, but many of today’s methodologies are inadequate and lack policy compliance. EDT developed the Digital Shredder to address agencies’ critical need to sanitize hard drive data beyond forensic reconstruction.
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