It's more than a little unsettling knowing that a perfect stranger has access to your private things. But this is exactly what can happen if your laptop or portable media gets lost or stolen. When you consider the staggering number of incidents involving lost or stolen hardware, it's crucial to ensure that you're protecting your data in order to safeguard your privacy.
More than two million laptops are stolen every year, while countless USB sticks, DVDs and CDs are lost daily because of their miniature size. That gives anyone who finds them unrestricted access to documents, photos, movies and more.
Deleting the data on your computer doesn't mean that it's gone. There are plenty of data recovery applications that can retrieve fragments left on your hard drive or emptied out trash bins.
Email history is loaded with everything from business to personal to very private messages - stuff you don't want other people reading.
The solution is Steganos Safe.
Creates a password-protected virtual safe to store your photos, music, documents, and more. Works like a real safe to protect data — no one can get in without a password. Steganos PicPass lets users click a series of pictures, eliminating the need to remember complicated passwords.
Turns your USB stick, mobile phone, digital camera, or iPod®, into a digital safe key — just plug it into your computer to open, pull it out to close.
Shreds unwanted files permanently and defeats data recovery applications. And deep cleans the free spaces on your hard and external drives - this way your vacation photos aren't reconstructed in case you sell your computer. In addition, Steganos Safe will block unauthorized access to e-mails with fast one click encryption.

Data safes that REALLY fit everything:
· Holds up to 512 GB of storage that's user defined and easily adjustable with intuitive controls. Create as many encrypted data safes as needed on PCs and laptops to store photos, music, movies, documents and more. Automatic safe shut down when user logs out or when computer sleeps.
· Steganos Portable Safe makes mobile data safe on the go
· Turns USB sticks, mobile phones, iPods, CDs, and DVDs into handy data safes that can be accessed on other systems — without extra software!
Open your Safe your way:
· Allows manual access to data safes using a USB stick, PDA, memory card, digicam, or iPod; visual access to data safes using a series of pictures or opens data safes automatically with an ActiveSync enabled mobile phone with bluetooth. Once the bluetooth device is out of range, the safe closes automatically.
E-mails in a post office safe:
· Safeguards user e-mails, contacts, calendars, and more. For Outlook (including contact details, calendars and work tasks), Outlook Express and Windows Mail. No e-mail access without a password.
100% data delete with Steganos Shredder:
· Performs permanent and unrecoverable data delete operations with Steganos Shredder. Shreds data on hard drives and external storage media such as USB sticks, rewritable CDs, DVDs, and memory cards. Uses incremental shredding that's fast and doesn't abuse drives. Free Space Shredder allows user defined free space shred commands on drives. And a trash shredder reliably and completely disposes of data in trash bins.
Open Sesame with Steganos PicPass:
· Lets users select a series of images as a password to access data safes, eliminating the need to memorize long and complicated passwords.
Faster and faster! Supports hotkey, automatic login and drag-and-drop:
· Supports shortcuts to quickly open and close data safes. Data safe shortcuts can also be created for desktops. Allows drag-and-drop to copy and move information easily to data safes. And lets users automatically start a safe and applications with login.
Defeats Keyloggers with virtual keyboard:
· Supports virtual keyboard when keying in passwords to access safes. Optional mix function is also available to constantly change key position to outwit even the smartest mouse click recorders.
Need a password? Steganos Password Generator:
· Creates strong password protection with just a few clicks. And allows user defined password properties such as length, special characters, numbers, and upper and lower case letters.
Password security check for the safest codes:
· Grades and provides feedback on password strength for keyed in passwords. Multilingual dictionary instantly flags and warns user about unsafe passwords.
256 Bit AES:
· Uses an uncrackable (and world renowned) 256 Bit AES security algorithm.

Limitations:
· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release:
· Encryption - 256 Bit AES in real time
· Number of possible safes - unlimited
· Maximum total size - unlimited
· Portable Safe - read & write
· Automatic updates
· USB stick as key
· ActiveSync mobile phones open the safe
· Dynamic safe size
· Import existing safes