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Re: Laptop Encryption
From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:14:38 -0500
Timothy Payne wrote:
Can anyone share with the list their experiences with enterprise level encryption products? I'm most interested in products that use some sort of 2-factor authentication...ie, a USB key required to boot and a password, or password/checksum combo.
We're currently using native capabilities ( EFS and file vault ) but have switched to purchasing all laptops with the Seagate full encryption hard drive. Key backup and recovery is manual at the present time. We have limited deployment to high risk areas known to handle sensitive data and are making an effort to control sensitive data storage in other areas. We've been lightly exploring commercial enterprise management offerings but the prices are exorbitant, particularly right now. I'm hoping the following standards will result in more competition and realistic prices in the enterprise arena and maybe even some open source offerings eventually. For management: http://www.darkreading.com/security/encryption/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=O0PB2MTZ4GB1KQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=214000040 For encrypted hard drives: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126869&intsrc=hm_ts_head -- Gary Flynn Security Engineer James Madison University www.jmu.edu/computing/security
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- Laptop Encryption Timothy Payne (Feb 17)
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- Re: Laptop Encryption Gary Dobbins (Feb 17)
- Re: Laptop Encryption Valdis Kletnieks (Feb 17)
- Re: Laptop Encryption Wes Young (Feb 18)
- Re: Laptop Encryption James Farr '05' (Feb 18)
- Re: Laptop Encryption Gary Flynn (Feb 18)
- Re: Laptop Encryption Zach Jansen (Feb 18)
- Re: Laptop Encryption Gregg, Christopher S. (Feb 18)
- Re: Laptop Encryption Warner, David F (Feb 18)
- Re: Laptop Encryption Basgen, Brian (Feb 18)