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

[Gethin Jones <gethinj () gethin net>]

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

Harrison Holland wrote:
> PGP Corp has a product called "PGP Whole DisK Encryption".  I have
> never used it, but I've heard good things.
>
> On 6/12/06, Mike Foster <mike () mytechcoach com> wrote:
> > In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what 
> > are the "best practices" for securing laptops?  Am curious how all of 
> > you feel about the options.
> >
> > How do  you feel and/or what is your experience with:
> > --Power-on passwords in the hardware/CMOS/BIOS Setup
> > --Hard drive locking passwords in the hardware/CMOS/BIOS Setup
> > --Laptops equipped with fingerprint readers for the above two options
> > --Windows NTFS EFS encryption
> > --TrueCrypt from www.truecrypt.org for encrypted storage areas
> > --Trusted Platform Module (TPM) https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org
> > --Tokens that plug into USB
> > --Others?
> >
> > Thank you in advance...