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Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops?
From: Gethin Jones <gethinj () gethin net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:45:33 +0100
The only drawback of 'whole disk encryption' is that disk recovery is not easy, no matter what PGP say. I tend to run an encrypted file and opens at boot and maps itself to a drive for all secure, well, all documents actually.
It makes backup easier as well Best Regards Gethin Harrison Holland wrote:
PGP Corp has a product called "PGP Whole DisK Encryption". I have never used it, but I've heard good things. On 6/12/06, Mike Foster <mike () mytechcoach com> wrote:In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Am curious how all of you feel about the options.How do you feel and/or what is your experience with: --Power-on passwords in the hardware/CMOS/BIOS Setup --Hard drive locking passwords in the hardware/CMOS/BIOS Setup --Laptops equipped with fingerprint readers for the above two options --Windows NTFS EFS encryption --TrueCrypt from www.truecrypt.org for encrypted storage areas --Trusted Platform Module (TPM) https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org --Tokens that plug into USB --Others? Thank you in advance...
Current thread:
- In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Mike Foster (Jun 13)
- Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Saqib Ali (Jun 13)
- RE: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Depp, Dennis M. (Jun 13)
- Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Dana (Jun 13)
- Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Harrison Holland (Jun 13)
- Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Gethin Jones (Jun 14)
- RE: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Sadler, Connie (Jun 13)
- Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Bryan S. Sampsel (Jun 13)
- Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Dave Patterson (Jun 13)
- Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops? Brian Daniel Beck (Jun 13)