Re: AW: File Encryption - Laptop

[Kamal Habayeb <mountainfury () fastmail fm>]

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Sean Earp wrote:
| Good points Chris-
|
| As always, you should take a layered approach to security,...
|
| 2) Encrypt the folder where the user stores most of his or her
| documents.  Your main concern on the stolen laptop is GENERALLY
| protection of sensitive documents.  Encrypting the folder (instead of
| specific files) ensures the greatest number of (important) files are
| protected, while not requiring a lot of administrative overhead.
|
Good points Sean,

Also programs that auto-backup documents such as Word or Excel need
their temp directories pointed to the same encrypted folder to avoid an
unencrypted version of the sensative file being somewhere else on the drive.

Cheers,
Kamal Habayeb
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