Secured eDisk Protect has been designed to be able to run as an enterprise level solution in the company’s existing IT infrastructure.
Secured eDisk Protect is deployed to the client machine through central deployment tools on the Active Directory® server, afterwards it can be
managed and controlled centrally.
Secured eDisk Protect Client
Minimum Hardware Requirements:
- 10MB of available hard disk space
- 32-bit Intel-compatible CPU computer system
- Sufficient memory to run the operating system, plus 30MB of free hard disk space
- CD ROM drive or access to a server based installation directory
- < 2TB HDD size limitation
- Client firewall must allow access to the Internet on port 80, or port 5094 if connection to the License Server is required.
- (Active Directory only) The Active Directory Server must have the following ports open to allow ProtectDrive clients to receive updates:
- port 88 TCP/UDP (Kerberos-network authentication protocol)
- port 135 TCP RPC (End Point Mapper; Distributed Component Object Model [DCOM] services)
- port 389 TCP/UDP (LDAP)
- port 1026 TCP (calendar access protocol; DCOM services)
- Ports 88 and 389 are required for proper communication of the domain member with the domain controller and Active Directory. Ports 135 and 1026 are specific to proper communication with the Secured eDisk Protect server and its remote clients.
Supported Storage Hardware
- Secured eDisk Protect can encrypt/decrypt all fixed (non-removable) system HDD partitions with a drive letter assigned (no hidden partition support), including all IDE/EIDE, SATA, SCSI drives, and selected removable media (such as USB flash drives and external hard drives). Software RAID arrays are not supported.
- Secured eDisk Protect does not in any way interfere with the normal operation of the storage subsystem with the following exceptions:
- It is not possible to format any partition on the system HDD.
- Secured eDisk Protect does not support post-installation addition, removal, or substitution of hard drive(s).
- During installation, Secured eDisk Protect accounts for all partitions present on the system. Post-installation partition resizing, converting, masking active, or re-partitioning is not supported. This includes the Master Boot Record manipulation.
- Supported Platforms for Client Management (on Server)
- Windows 2003 Server, SP2
- Windows 2003 Server R2, SP2
- Windows 2008 Server R2
- Supported Platforms for Client
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Service Pack 2 (ProtectDrive for Servers edition only)
- Windows 2008 Server R2 (ProtectDrive for Servers edition only)
- Windows XP Home, Service Pack 3
- Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 3
- Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit editions, Service Pack 2
- Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit editions