Lenovo Intros Hardware Password Manager

Offering a new solution for companies needing to manage data security, Lenovo has announced Lenovo (News - Alert) Hardware Password Manager – an offering the company claims is the only universal tool to work with all brands of hard drives with full disk encryption (FDE).

 

Data theft from personal and enterprise systems cause immense damages to both individuals and companies. When it occurs, not only must businesses spend money and time trying to fix it, but legal fees, corrective actions, loss of reputation and loss of customers can also result.

 

With the new tool from Lenovo, IT administrators can remotely manage employee hard drive passwords, including drives that are self-encrypting, on many Lenovo Think-branded laptops and desktops this means companies can set up, deploy and remotely manage and reset employee hard drive passwords.

 

“Encrypting drives offer state of the art protection for PC data, but companies everywhere previously had difficulty managing them," said Peter Schrady, vice president and general manager, Enterprise, Software and Peripherals, Lenovo. "Lenovo's new Hardware Password Manager product provides an easy tool to reset passwords by remote control, including full-encryption drives. This is the world's only solution to centrally manage all available brands of fully encrypting drives.”

 

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X301, X200, X200s, X200 Tablet, T500, T400, R500, R400, W700, W700ds and ThinkCentre M58/M58p desktop support the Hardware Password Manager technology.

 

Also, with the help of Hardware Password Manager, IT administrators can now create an administrative user ID and hardware password within a “vault” in the PC’s BIOS. This helps control the configuration of BIOS settings on a deployment of PCs and allows for central management of the BIOS Supervisor password.

 

Recently, Lenovo also announced the creation of two business units to align the company more closely with its strategic direction and market dynamics to better serve customers. The first business unit focuses on customers in mature markets, and the other focuses on customers in emerging markets. The second business unit for the Emerging Markets organization will include Africa, Asia Pacific, China, Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, India, and many other countries.