4safe strongdisk enables to keep secret data on protected disk in windows 95/98/nt/2000. protected disk works as a common disk, but all its content is encrypted when written. to mount protected disk a password and/or an electronic key is required. any documents, tables and databases can be kept on protected disks and can be opened directly from protected disks. no need to encrypt existing disk, strongdisk will create new virtual encrypted disks for you. the content of protected disk is physically stored in a common file, that enables to make easily backup copies. sensitive data is stored on protected disks, which are mounted on the server and work as normal local disks. when this data is not used, i.e. protected disks are not mounted, the contents of each protected disk appears as a separate encrypted file. to mount the disk a password and an external key are required. a password and an external key are required to decrypt the data, and not just to be verified. without the appropriate password and external key, nobody can read the data even if he has physical access to it. after the disk is mounted any data can be written to or read from it. encryption and decryption is performed "on-the-fly" without storing the data in non-encrypted form. protected disks can be accessed by any applications including database management systems such as ms-sql or oracle. features: * protect your temp folder to avoid secret data leakage through temporary files. * completely delete files with wiping out their contents. * securely shutdown windows with wiping the swapfile(pagefile). * sharing parameters are automatically restored on mounting protected disk. * protected disks can stay mounted when local user logs off. * dbms or any other applications or services can be started automatically on protected disk mounting.