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ASG's BioCert® Division Announces the iQBioDrive Portable Biometric Hard Drive With CryptoLokr AES 256 Bit Cipher Encryption

(MArch 07, 2007)--Artemis Solutions Group unveiled iQBioDrive Portable Biometric Hard Drive With BioCert CryptoLokr AES 256 Bit Cipher Encryption. "Your Data - Your Choice - Your Security".

The iQBioDrive is being marketed by ASG as a device for secure personal portable data and an enabling solution for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SARBOX and GLBa compliance. The iQBioDrive comes in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities and is completely portable using only a USB connector to attach to any computer.

As chronicled on its iQBio Blog, 2006 was the "Year of Personal Data Breach" with over one third of the United States population potentially exposed to identity theft. ASG has continued to catalog the portable data release carnage into 2007 and has on its Data Breaches Blog detailed the unauthorized release of over twenty two and a half million personal records as of February 12th, 2006.

The daily onslaught of media reports regarding the illegal or accidental disclosures of data are reaching pandemic proportions. The word "epidemic" does not even begin to describe the level of stupidity with regard to the warehousing, storage, transport and stewardship of individual private data.

The solution being marketed by ASG's BioCert Division through its online websites and distribution partners is the iQBioDrive. The iQBioDrive is a portable USB fingerprint secured hard drive that plugs into your USB port and provides secure access through fingerprint authentication to the data that is stored on a biometrically locked and encrypted partition.

The CryptoLokR AES256 secure encrypted partition on the iQBioDrive is set to Multi-Factor (Triple Factor) Authentication incorporating a token, fingerprint and secure password. This security method means that you must first use your fingerprint to unlock the "Secure Partition" of the drive and then use a secure password and then the drive checks against a hidden encryption key located on the drive to finally mount the "Encrypted Partition" creating a super-secure method of storing your most private data.

The iQBioDrive is the first available portable hard drive that gives you the option of storing data in one of three different storage areas with three increasing levels of security:

Public Partition (Open Security) - This drive partition which is factory defaulted to ~ 10% of the drives capacity is available whenever the drive is plugged into a computer. Items stored in this area are ALWAYS available whenever the drive is attached to a PC. Examples of items that you might want to store in this volume are portable anti-virus programs or sales presentations (with publicly available data) that you want to run from any PC.

Biometric Secure Partition (Biometric Locked Security) - This drive partition which is factory defaulted ~ 15% of the drives capacity and is available when the user authenticates with their fingerprint. This area of the drive has a higher security level than the Open Partition but does not have encryption.

Encrypted Secure Volume (Multi-Factor Security) - This drive volume is a sub-set of the Biometric Secure Partition which is defaulted to ~ 75% of the drives capacity and is available ONLY after authenticating with your fingerprint and then verifying your identity with a secure password and/or keyfile.

Using AES256 Standard Encryption with a private encryption key, a high security password and biometric identification, this three-factor authentication system makes the iQBioDrive one of the most secure portable storage devices on the market today.

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