CMS Products Inc., a provider of data security, backup, disaster recovery and content management technologies, announced last week availability of its "EasyEncrypt" Upgrade Kit for notebook computers with SATA (Serial-ATA) hard disks.

The EasyEncrypt upgrade kit allows notebook computer users to replace existing, non-encrypted disk drives with a state-of-the-art, secure, hardware encrypted disk drive using AES (advanced encryption standard) 128-bit encryption and strong password support.

CMS Products has sold more than two million units of software while installing more than four million complete storage solutions in 90-plus countries. The complete line of product offerings includes automatic backup solutions for both portable and desktop computers, RAID (redundant array of independent disks) systems, backup and disaster recovery software, media management software, notebook hard drive upgrades and data transfer kits and high capacity desktop hard drives. CMS Products has its US headquarters located in Costa Mesa, California.

As the EasyEncrypt utilizes "always on" data protection through its government grade AES 128-bit encryption scheme, data is always safe and secure. EasyEncrypt supports BIOS level ATA password locking for pre-boot authorization.

With EasyEncrypt, a computer's Windows operating system, applications, data and personal settings are seamlessly transferred to the new hardware-encrypted disk drive supplied with the EasyEncrypt upgrade kit. The new encrypted disk drive can then physically replace the non-encrypted disk drive within the notebook.

The EasyEncrypt upgrade kit comes with all of the hardware required to connect its encrypted disk drive to your system through the USB (Universal serial bus) interface.

After the transfer of all data to the new encrypted disk drive is complete, the old, still functioning unencrypted disk drive can be used in the external enclosure supplied with the kit. This provides the user with additional portable storage for data with little security value.

EasyEncrypt is available through resellers and through the company web-site.