Ensconce Data Technology’s Digital Shredder Now Available through Unisys SEWP IV Contract

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ensconce Data Technology (EDT), creators of the Dead on Demand™ products and Best Practice Solutions, today announced a three-year agreement with Unisys (NYSE: UIS) to make the Digital Shredder Appliance available on the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement IV (SEWP) contract. This contract provides the entire federal government and their authorized prime contractors access to EDT’s Digital Shredder, a best practice solution for end-of-life hard drive sanitization.

To kick off its relationship with Unisys, EDT’s Vice President of Government Solutions, Bruce Stimon, will demonstrate the Digital Shredder at the Unisys’ booth (number 1030) at the 2008 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference in San Diego the week of March 17^th.

“We are pleased to offer this best-in-class solution to our federal clients through the NASA SEWP-IV program,” said Tom Conaway, managing partner for homeland security, Unisys. “EDT’s Digital Shredder offers a portable and more efficient alternative to traditional sanitization methods, ensuring secure business operations across the enterprise.”

Eliminating end-of-life data on hard drives is becoming a greater security challenge as hard drive capacity demand continues to shorten technology life cycles. Strict government data compliance and OMB security mandates have addressed Information Assurance as a whole, but many of today’s methodologies are inadequate and lack policy compliance. EDT developed the Digital Shredder to address agencies’ critical need to sanitize hard drive data beyond forensic reconstruction.

The Digital Shredder leverages Secure Erase Technology, which is already embedded in the firmware of most hard drives, yet has sat dormant for many years. The Digital Shredder’s use of this technology allows for complete drive sanitization in a non-destructive manner, thereby reducing toxic e-Waste. Additional benefits include an automated and verifiable audit trail, which significantly reduces man-hours, human error and improves policy compliance.

“Feedback from government agencies already using the Digital Shredder through existing government contracts has been tremendous,” said Bruce Stimon - Vice President, Government Solutions. “The need for government agencies to improve their sanitization policy, process and procedures is mission critical. Securing this contract with Unisys provides EDT with a great opportunity to broaden our presence within the public sector—a presence that is quickly gaining traction as government customers are recognizing the Digital Shredder as the preferred end-point solution for managing the last phase of the hard drive life cycle.”

About NASA SEWP IV

The NASA SEWP Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) provides the latest in Information Technology (IT) products to all Federal Agencies. SEWP IV consists of thirty-seven Competed Prime Contract Holders. These contracts offer a vast selection and wide range of advanced technologies including computer systems and servers, peripherals, network equipment, storage devices and other IT products and product solutions.

About EDT

Ensconce Data Technology (EDT) is the creator of Dead on Demand™ digital data destruction products and Best Practice Solutions. EDT’s products and solutions address the proper sanitization of storage media under custody and control and the elimination of data on storage media that has been lost or stolen. EDT is headquartered in Portsmouth, NH USA. For more information please visit www.deadondemand.com or call 877.338.6246 (USA Toll-Free), 603.766.3830 (International).