RE: Full Disk Laptop Encryption

["Bob Beringer" <bob.beringer () usa net>]

Rob,

Thanks for the email, a couple of the issues with PointSec right the last time that I checked is that they didn't offer 
digital signature support, MAC agents, and don't support encryption for Data-in-Motion.  There were other deficiencies 
that came up during our bake-off, but these are a few to get you started...  Don't get me wrong PointSec has a pretty 
decent offering and a lot of folks like them, but I try to talk about things on list from a technical perspective first.

An older public bake-off document was released via the link below and it might provide value to the group.

http://www.networkcomputing.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193500189

My team developed a really cool integrated solution with several of the whole-disk encryption solutions for 
multi-factor authentication and remote access for some of our government clients and really had to dig into the weeds 
to find out which solutions played better with others, so my thoughts below are tied closely to what works well in an 
enterprise, what the goals of the organization might be and what type of integration that each environment needs.

Two last notes, PGP now has a universal server and they have a MAC client with enterprise key management for the MAC's. 
Lastly, TECSEC has a very flexible and powerful solution for encrypting objects and other data in motion as well 
protecting as Data at Rest. (mind you in this case that flexible also might mean more initial set up time and effort...)

I hope that this information helps :-)

v/r
Bob
+12404756858


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Thompson [mailto:my.security.lists () gmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:50 PM
To: Bob Beringer
Cc: Lafosse, Ricardo; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Full Disk Laptop Encryption

On 9/27/07, Bob Beringer <bob () eor us> wrote:
> Ricardo,
>
> Pointsec has some limitations, other solutions that are worth looking into
> are:

Which would be?  I'm not trying to be confrontational, I am simply curious.

I have personally used WinMagic, PointSec and PGP.  I am not familiar
with the TecSec, though I am curious as to what limitations you would
be referring to in regards to PointSec.

IMO I would use either PointSec or SecureDoc, by WinMagic.  I would
stay away from PGP's product like the plague.

They are both extremely thorough.  Pointsec with it's current release
is much faster, and has quite a few handy features, like disabling
removeable media until authentication, etc...  I haven't used
SecureDoc since it's been Linux compliant, so I can't speak on it's
newer revisions...

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-- 
Rob