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Re: VA Loses another Hard Drive with data on 48,000 veterans
From: "Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 21:13:10 -0800
Try several FDE solution before you settle on one. Most of the FDE solutions provide 128bit AES encryption, but some are easier to use then others. Also some offer challenge/response based password recovery, which can be *very* helpful. Another thing to keep in mind is that the encryption solution must be transparent to the user and must be straight-forward to setup. You can find a rather complete list of FDE solutions at: http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/Full_Disc_Encryption.html On 2/5/07, Ed <security () kdtc net> wrote:
Saqib Ali wrote: > http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/news/article329.html > > Associated Press is reporting that a portable hard drive belonging to > Veteran's Administration has been stolen. The Official Press Release > is available at the VA website. This is something I'm glad I can keep track of here. This past year alone has shown that it is easy to take things for granted and expect things to stay where they are, when in fact, one shouldn't. Unfortunately, I seem to be one of these people who have gotten a 'little slack' in terms of maintaining a secured network. (Can never get my point across to users and bosses on security issues. They never seem to understand that P2P and Skype really don't really belong in a corporate environment. The only consideration is 'low cost' and 'convenient'). Anyway, there's certainly a plethora of solutions for encryption(whole disk or otherwise). Does anyone here have any good suggestions? So far, I'm looking at PGP Whole Disk and it looks promising. Thanks. Edmund
-- Saqib Ali, CISSP, ISSAP http://www.full-disk-encryption.net
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- VA Loses another Hard Drive with data on 48,000 veterans Saqib Ali (Feb 05)
- Re: VA Loses another Hard Drive with data on 48,000 veterans Ed (Feb 06)
- Re: VA Loses another Hard Drive with data on 48,000 veterans Saqib Ali (Feb 06)
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