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Media Encryption Solution

Service: re-engineering and implementation of new functionality
Solution type: desktop application
Business area: information security, data protection
Period: 02.2007-04.2007; 05.2008-08.2008

Key problems

Recent proliferation of USB ports and CD/DVD writers on laptops and PCs has increased the occurrence of data leak events within enterprises. Lost or stolen removable media, such as disk-based MP3 players, digital cameras with smart media cards, memory sticks, compact flash and CD/DVD containing Restricted Data, puts organizations data and their business at risk.

Existing disk encryption solution for enterprises did not protect USB devices, portable hard drives and CD/DVD drives.

Solution

Arcadia developed a Media Encryption Solution from scratch. The Encryption Solution solves problem of unauthorized data access by delivering the ability to encrypt data on any storage device or media. This capability allows employees to safely transport and use data on portable media and securely distribute data via email.

The Encryption Solution can be deployed easily across all endpoints, and policy settings can be updated as business needs change.

In the scope of the project Arcadia rewrote file system driver components of the Encryption Solution to make them compatible with Windows Vista. Standalone utility was rewritten to provide better look-and-feel and improved usability.

Quality assurance cycle included both regression testing, to make sure that existing functionality hadn’t been deteriorated, and system testing on newly supported platform.

Interoperability testing with the most common Anti-virus and firewall products was performed.