About Cipher Shield

Cipher Shield^TM encryption technology utilizes industry standard proven algorithms such as NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) certified DES (Data Encryption Standard) and TDES (Triple DES) to securely protect your data from unauthorized disclosure or undetected modification during transmission or while in storage. Cipher Shield achieves highest security to its products by using hardware encryption that encrypt/decrypt data bit-by-bit.

Using Cipher Shield^TM, authorized users must have the key that was used to encrypt the data in order to decrypt it. The unique key chosen for use in a particular application makes the results of encrypting data using the algorithm unique. Using a different key will not work.

Cipher Shield? technology is entirely independent of the computer operating system and it is fully compatible with all disk drive protocols. Cipher Shield technology will not decrease the performance of the computer system because it does not use any software or drivers to encrypt the data.