Following Colossal Government Failure, Stonewood is calling for Everyone to Take Responsibility for Encrypting their Sensitive Data

Details of 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales, stored on an unencrypted computer memory stick, were revealed lost today. Experts at leading British designer and manufacturer of encrypted hard drives, Stonewood, will be introducing an encrypted memory stick within weeks to the market which would have prevented what is being described as a massive failure of duty by ministers.

“Companies and individuals seldom recognise the value of their data until such time as it has been breached or lost. Sensitive data should never be stored on non-secure, unencrypted portable devices,” said Grant Gutteridge, Director at Stonewood. “It is deeply alarming that people are unaware that the technology exists to securely store confidential personal details and it’s the responsibility of everyone to ensure they Encrypt their sensitive data.”

The new encrypted USB Flash drive, part of Stonewood’s Eclypt freedom family of encrypted portable devices, includes an external USB hard disk drive featuring 320GB 0r 500GB capacity means there are no excuses for these data losses.

Coming in the wake of a number of high profile data losses, the missing device includes un-encrypted details of every single prisoner in England and Wales including 10,000 prolific offenders as well as names, dates of births and some release dates.

Stonewood note that to ensure no kind of confidential information is ever made vulnerable to loss or theft, sensitive data should always be encrypted, policies implemented and more importantly adhered to.

If you would be interested in meeting with Stonewood or be the fist to review the new hardware encrypted USB Flash drive please contact:

Zara Gibb
Peppercom Europe
Tel: +44 (0)20 7033 2660
E: zgibb {at} uk.peppercom(.)com

About Stonewood: www.Eclypt.com

Stonewood is an innovative solutions-driven company that designs and manufactures the industry leading FlagStone range of hardware encrypted hard drives.

Trusted globally by Governments, Law enforcement agencies as well as the world’s foremost financial, banking and medical corporations, the FlagStone range is widely-recognised for its fit and forget, tamper proof and fully secure solution for data encryption.

They are Operating System independent and require no specialist IT knowledge in order to operate them; they are completely transparent to the end user and have no adverse effect on computer performance.

FlagStone has now evolved into Eclypt, with an array of new and improved features making it even more user-friendly and flexible to suit each and every individual organisation, without compromising the level of data protection.

MS Windows User Account Management software, support of up to 128 User Accounts and configurable password length and login attempts are just some of the features that Eclypt has to offer.

Zara Gibb
Management Supervisor
Peppercom Europe
The Timber Yard
107 Drysdale Street
London N1 6ND
Tel: +44 (0)20 7033 2660
Fax: +44 (0)20 7900 2928
E: zgibb {at} uk.peppercom(.)com
Mobile: 07957 129 339