Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops?

["Greg Merideth" <gmerideth () ftnj net>]

I prefer this method as well.  I have several gigabyte sized pgp
virtual drives where i store my outlook ost data as well as customer
information.  For extra oomph, confidential information is pgp'ed via
a different key inside of the pgp secure drives.

While I see no problem with entering in two keys on startup just to
get my email it's amazing how many of our customers balk at this
simple task.

On 6/13/06, Gethin Jones <gethinj () gethin net> wrote:
> 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

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