Blancco Compliant With NATO Standards

Blancco Compliant With NATO Standards

May 21, 2007

-- NATO Confirms That Blancco Sanitizes Hard Drives up to
SECRET Levels


    JOENSUU, Finland, May 21 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Blancco
Ltd., the world's leading data erasure software company has
recently been included in the NATO Information Assurance
Catalog (NIAPC). Now NATO Members may use Blancco - Data
Cleaner+ v4.5 HMG to erase hard drives without fear of data
leakage or loss.

    Blancco-Data Cleaner+ v4.5 HMG has been proven to be
leading the end-of-life and reuse management markets
throughout the world. Blancco's product has passed
extensive forensic tests and has received high-level
certifications from organizations such as the
Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG) in the UK.
Blancco's full certification record and global standards are
available on the web at http://www.blancco.com .

    "The approval is kind of an award of sorts for
Blancco as we continue down the long road of erasure
product development. It shows our company and our customers
that we have done things right, and that we are able to
achieve the high goals we have been aiming towards for a
long time. I suppose that everybody who is working in the
data security business understands the value of the
approval, as NATO is considered as one of the strictest,
most thorough organizations in the world. From a business
perspective, the approval surely will bring more customers
to Blancco, as corporations normally choose certified or
approved products for their use. Furthermore, this makes
our prospective customers lives much easier, because there
is no need to spend time and money evaluating the product,
as it has already been done by an extremely highly
respected organization such as NATO," says Markku
Jokiranta, Sales Director -- Blancco Ltd.

    The long and stringent process of the NATO catalog
listing will now provide their Military Partners and Peace
Programme Members the opportunity to receive the ultimate
data security measures that Blancco's software can
guarantee. Blancco-Data Cleaner+ v4.5 HMG guarantees its
users 100% data erasure. NATO Members will also have the
ability to utilize Blancco's ERA Concept (Erase, Report,
Audit), which will provide them with an automatically
generated detailed erasure report with Hardware Asset
Management information that exceeds governmental regulatory
requirements. "The whole erasure process is digitally
protected with a complete verification module for
confirming that the data has been securely and fully erased
from the hard drive," as written in the NIAPC
Submission Summary.

    Users of Blancco's software will find that it is
tailored for desktop, laptop, and server environments with
RAID systems. The software's flexibility continues with its
ability to erase hidden and locked areas such as DCO, HPA
and remapped sectors. The software can also be delivered
via many different media including: network, floppy, CD and
preinstall (.msi package).

    As noted by the NIAPC, data erased by Blancco-Data
Cleaner+ v4.5 HMG cannot be recovered with any existing
technology, which makes it a perfect solution for its
Members looking to protect their information by destroying
it -- permanently.

    About Blancco

    With over 7 million end users, an impressive clientele
and a broad network of trusted partners, Blancco has proved
to be the global specialist in the field of professional
data destruction and reuse management. With 9 international
offices and partners in over 20 countries on every
continent, Blancco has the world covered.

    For more information about Blancco Ltd. and our
products and services, please visit us on the web at
http://www.blancco.com .




    For more information, please contact:

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     PR Coordinator, 
     Blancco Ltd., work,
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