“This gives confidence to the public when selecting products to assist in the fight to reduce crime”

As well as UK Governmental agencies, SDMS is a trusted supplier of media solutions products and services to the MOD & other large defence primes and have an ever-growing presence within the private sector. 

SDMS supply a comprehensive range of protectively marked data acquisition and removable data storage devices in both analogue and digital formats, including magnetic, optical and solid-state technologies in line with the Government Security Classifications. All marked products are supplied direct from their facility and have a full audit trail to the point of delivery and through life media audit trail. In addition, SDMS are a distributor for the Appguard family of zero day, zero trust anti malware solutions, which are also covered by Secured by Design. SDMS will also be one of only 2 organisations accredited to deliver Appguard Related Managed Services in the UK and EMEA. 

The SDMS core business is focused on manufacturing encrypted external memory devices, offering solutions to combat unauthorised removal of sensitive data. 

You can find out more about Secure Data Media Solutions and their SBD accredited products here. 

Antony Craven, MD of Secure Data Media Solutions said: “Having served in the Army and Police Service, I fully appreciate the need for a recognised standard for products such as SBD. This gives confidence to the public when selecting products to assist in the fight to reduce crime. The cyber threat is an ever-growing proportion of crime in the UK, and our years of experience in the security industry has allowed us to develop and onboard products which are best of breed, with regard to addressing these new concerns and challenges.” 

Kenny McHugh, Secured by Design, said: "It’s great to have SDMS on board as members of Secured by Design. SDMS are authorised distributors of HSM & Data Security Inc. products. HSM manufacture high quality and innovative shredders and Data Security Inc. manufacture Magnetic Degaussers, Hard Disk Destruction Devices, Optical & Solid State Disintegrators. I’m looking forward to working with them over the coming years".