Re: High-Volume Portable/External and Encrypted Drives

["Flynn, Gerald" <flynngn () JMU EDU>]

We installed Truecrypt on external 500GB drives for one 
particular department where we found a lot of this going 
on. They're happy with the performance even with what 
they describe as heavy Access database work. But if we 
had to do it over, we'd probably look into buying drives
with built in, OS independent, encryption. 

Here are a couple reviews I saved:

http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_lenovo_thinkpad_usb
http://www.pcworld.com/article/158775/encrypted_drives_keep_your_files_safe.html




> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Connie Sadler
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:19 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] High-Volume Portable/External and Encrypted Drives
>
>
> I have a question for this group – some of our users have a need for
> secure portable storage in large chunks (a TB?). I see these, for
> example:  http://www.seagate.com/www/en-
> us/products/external/blackarmor/ Are there others that we can offer our
> users that are portable and still encrypted? Ideally, I’d like to have
> key escrow as well, but I’m more worried right now about our users
> storing large volumes of user data on external portable drives without
> our knowledge. We’re looking at DLP over the long-term, but in the
> meantime, we need an option for our folks who need to pull sensitive
> data out of our central repositories onto a portable/external drive and
> still have it encrypted in case of loss or theft. There aren’t many
> real needs for this (we like to keep our sensitive data on protected
> servers!), but I’d rather be part of the solution than to have them go
> around me.
>
> Thanks much…
>
> Connie
>
> Employee Intranet <https://intranet.lpch.org/index.html>
>
> Connie J. Sadler
>
> Information Security Officer, CM, CISSP, CISM, GIAC GSLC, CGEIT
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> Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
>
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