CyberScrub LLC Releases cyberCide 2.0.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2003 CyberScrub LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , an Atlanta-based developer of computer security tools, today announced the release of cyberCide 2.0, a state of the art disk sanitizer sanitizer a sanitizing product capable of cleaning and disinfecting; usually a formulation containing a disinfectant and a detergent. designed to securely remove all data from a computer hard drive. Designed for strict compliance with corporate and government file retention policies, cyberCide ensures the complete and non-retrievable erasure of all data on selected drives and partitions. This timely product release coincides with the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, Security Final Rule, a comprehensive set of federal directives that ensure the privacy of protected health information protected health information Health informatics Any individually identifiable health informatlon that is used or circulated by an entity that falls under the governance of HIPAA; the privacy regulations mandate safeguards for protected health information, and the . A similar set of federal directives known as Gramm-Leach-Bliley protects financial data and has been in effect for some time. The data destruction capabilities of cyberCide ensure compliance with these federal mandates. Noted privacy expert and MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology scholar Simson Garfinkel recently recognized CyberScrub technology as an effective solution in his widely circulated paper Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization sanitization /san·i·ti·za·tion/ (-ti-za´shun) the process of making or the quality of being made sanitary. san·i·ti·za·tion n. Practices. Protecting information is a serious responsibility that may have ethical and legal consequences. Health records, passwords, marketing plans, IP, bids, personnel and payroll data, tax returns, sales contracts, trade secrets and email are examples of sensitive data that may reside on a computer scheduled for disposal. New features include enhanced log capabilities that comply with Department of Defense standards, three new erasure methods, the ability to run from command line parameters, user interface design, a hard drive partitioning option and more. A full list of new features can be found at: http://www.cyberscrub.com/cybercide/overview. CyberScrub President Bill Adler: "'Delete does not mean erase.' Many have discovered to their shock and dismay the significance of unsecured data erasure." cyberCide utilizes wipe/erasure methods that exceed standards set by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD (1) (Dial On Demand) A feature that allows a device to automatically dial a telephone number. For example, an ISDN router with dial on demand will automatically dial up the ISP when it senses IP traffic destined for the Internet. 5220.22). Fully configurable and easy to deploy, cyberCide supports 85 partition types, overwrites both physical and logical drives and allows the user to select unique wipe methods for each space. Regardless of native operating system cyberCide will identify and purge any size drive or partition. Requiring no dongle The term was originally slang for a "hardware key." Today, the term is often used to refer to any small adapter that has a short cable with connectors at both ends. See hardware key and PC Card dongle. or other hardware device it provides maximum flexibility with minimal user effort. Please see http://www.cyberscrub.com/cybercide. |
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