This summer all retail and online purchases of Nero 8 will come with free data protection suite.

Nero?s summer promotion will include copies of Steganos Safe 2008 with all new Nero 8 purchases and upgrades both in the retail market and through the Nero Online Shop within the Europe, Middle East, and Africa market.

Steganos Safe 2008 provides users solutions to keep personal data safe from unauthorized access. Users can create an unlimited number of secure drives called data safes, each holding up to 256 GB of content. Data safes can be created for laptops, PCs, and USB sticks. In addition, audio and video content can be encrypted before creating a CD or DVD with Nero, thus making personal media files password-protected. Passwords can be generated to encode e-mail in-boxes, and passwords can be created using image sequences instead of words. In addition, users can rely on personal devices such as an iPod or USB stick as the key instead of a password. A virtual shredder lets users shred unwanted data permanently.

Nero 8 is available in retail markets worldwide and through the Nero Online Shop at www.nero.com.