Howard County General Hospital in Maryland Selects SanDisk Secure Flash Drives and Management Software
Confidential Medical And
Organizational Data Now Secured With SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise USB
Flash Drives, Managed By SanDisk CMC Software
MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, July 14,
2008 SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced
that Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, Maryland, has
selected SanDisk's Cruzer® Enterprise secure USB flash
drives and Central Management & Control (CMC) server software
to protect highly confidential medical and organizational data.
Part of the Johns Hopkins Medicine health care
system, which includes the prestigious Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) is a
comprehensive medical center providing services to more than
165,000 people a year, with a staff of 1,700 full-time and
part-time employees, as well as more than 800 physicians and other
allied health professionals.
HCGH recently purchased SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise drives to
provide on request to managers in all departments of the hospital,
and subsequently purchased SanDisk CMC software to manage those
drives through the hospital's network.
"Few
types of information are more confidential than patient records,
making data security a top priority in health care," said Rick
Edwards, Senior Director and Chief Information Officer for HCGH.
"We selected the SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise drive because security
is not an option - all files are encrypted and password protected.
We added SanDisk CMC software so our IT staff can have more control
over data stored on USB flash drives, as well as the ability to
remotely supervise day-to-day tasks such as password management and
backup."
"We are honored that Howard County General Hospital, a leader in
adopting new health care IT solutions, is turning to SanDisk to
help make data in use more secure," said Roy Ramati, Vice President
and General Manager of the Enterprise Division at SanDisk. "Looking
beyond security, we believe HCGH will appreciate how CMC can
increase the IT staff's visibility into how the drives are
used."
SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise flash drives protect all files stored
on the drive with advanced hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption.
Users are also required to create a complex password during the
set-up process. The combination of encryption and password
protection makes it extremely difficult for unauthorized users to
access data if the drive is lost or stolen. Cruzer Enterprise is
also fast, with read speed of 24 megabytes (MB) per second and
write speed of 20 MB/sec1.
SanDisk CMC software provides lifecycle management for Cruzer
Enterprise drives, including password recovery and renewal through
the network, remote termination of lost drives, central back-up and
restore, and central usage tracking. This means data is not lost
when a drive is lost, and IT administrators can provision a
replacement flash drive with user files stored on the network.
SanDisk, a global leader in USB flash drives, is driving the
convergence of secure portable storage, identity management and
virtualization through its Enterprise Division to create a
comprehensive solution for mobile professionals in enterprises and
government agencies. Today, SanDisk's Enterprise Division offers
solutions for identity management and for securely storing and
managing enterprise data, within and outside the enterprise
environment. With the upcoming introduction of virtualization
capabilities, SanDisk expects to allow IT managers to boost
employee productivity by mobilizing the corporate computing
environment through flexible, secure solutions that also reduce
total cost of ownership. More information is available at www.sandisk.com/enterprise.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and world's largest supplier
of flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory - from
research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and
retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash
memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders;
digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the
enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state
drives for computers. SanDisk (www.sandisk.com/corporate)
is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half
its sales outside the United States.
1 Based on SanDisk internal testing; performance may
be lower depending upon host device. 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million
bytes.
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