WhiteCanyon Raises the Privacy Bar with Introduction of WipeDrive™ 3.0 Disk Sanitizing Enterprise Site Licensing Program. New Site Licensing Program’s Scalability Enables Organizations to Maintain Privacy Anytime, Anywhere with Industry Leading WipeDrive 3.0

(PRWEB) May 12, 2003

OREM, Utah (PRWEB) May 12, 2003 − WhiteCanyon, Inc. today announced the introduction of a site licensing program for its highly touted WipeDrive™ 3.0, listed in the top five disk sanitizing tools by the U.S. Department of Defense. Hard disk sanitizing has achieved industry wide recognition as more users have come to realize that formatting a computer does not erase data from the hard drive. WipeDrive 3.0 is the first hard disk sanitizing tool to offer a site license pricing model aimed at driving down the costs of recirculating computers, employing a cost per computer pricing structure that decreases as the software is scaled.

Based on the size of an organization’s install base, the new site licensing program will empower enterprise licensees to wipe computers an unlimited number of times at any location within that organization. Now armed with an enterprise-wide solution, organizations can maintain an expectation of privacy that has largely become recognized as a cost of conducting business. WipeDrive 3.0 is currently deployed worldwide at small to medium-sized businesses, Fortune 500 companies, universities, government agencies and U.S. military bases.

“With the introduction of the WipeDrive 3.0 site licensing program, organizations and enterprises can be completely confident that the privacy expectations of their members, customers, partners, employees and patients are being upheld. They can also have confidence that once their computers have been wiped, business-critical information intended to remain confidential will be protected from unauthorized disclosure,” said Steve Elderkin, president and CEO, WhiteCanyon, Inc.

The timeliness of this offering coincides with a heightened awareness among enterprises; seeking an easy-to-use, cost effective hard drive sanitizing solution that optimizes privacy protection when recycling, donating or discarding computers.

With a significant portion of business being conducted electronically, organizations are storing an inordinate amount of business-critical and classified information on their computers, including business plans, competitive intelligence, vendor and partner information, customer data and employee records. This confidential information is readily accessible when organizations improperly retire their disk drives.

Gartner Dataquest estimates that a majority of the 150,000 hard drives “retired” last year found their way to secondary markets. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the right to privacy does not extend to these discarded items. While many organizations reformat their hard drives before recycling, donating or discarding their computers, this does not erase hard drive data. A majority of the computers that are recirculated still contain business-critical information that can be retrieved, increasing an organization’s vulnerability to fraud, damaged business relationships and competitive forces.

WipeDrive 3.0’s proven hard drive sanitizing software safely, simply and completely overwrites all preexisting data located on a hard drive, ensuring that organizations avoid getting burned by failing to fully sanitize their computers. The result is essentially a brand new hard drive.

Free evaluation copies of WipeDrive 3.0 can be downloaded at http://www.whitecanyon.com.

About WhiteCanyon, Inc.

WhiteCanyon, Inc. is a leading provider of security software employing permanent deletion technology. The company is engaged in the development, sales and support of hard disk utilities that leverage deletion and security related technologies. WhiteCanyon’s proven hard drive sanitizing software solution, WipeDrive 3.0, listed in the top five disk sanitizing tools by the U.S. Department of Defense, and individual file scanning and deletion utility, SecureClean, have increasingly become important additions to the software suites of individual users and corporate customers alike. WhiteCanyon’s customer base spans individuals, small to medium-sized businesses, Fortune 500 companies and government institutions.

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WhiteCanyon, SecureClean 4.0 and WipeDrive are trademarks or registered trademarks of WhiteCanyon, Inc. Additional company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.

Contact: Heather Humphrey

     Marketing Communications Director

     WhiteCanyon, Inc.    

     (801) 224-6420

         heather.humphrey@whitecanyon.com