Re: Full Disk Encryption

[Linda Pruss <pruss () DOIT WISC EDU>]

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has also been reviewing products for 
full disk encryption. Safeboot and WinMagic both indicated first half of 
2008 for a full disk encryption Macintosh release. Utimaco says they are 
working on one but wouldn't give an approximate release date.

---Linda

Linda Pruss, CISSP
Security Engineer
Office of Campus Information Security
University of Wisconsin-Madison
lmpruss () wisc edu
608.262.5270


Justin Sherenco wrote:
> Gary,
>
> We have just started to review products for full disk encryption. 
> We’ve had meetings with folks from PGP this week. They stated that 
> full disk encryption will be available for Mac’s (boot volume 
> included) early next year, however they were unable to give us a firm 
> release date.
>
> Regards,
>
> Justin
>
> *********************************
>
> Justin Sherenco
>
> Information Security Analyst
>
> Eastern Michigan University -ICT
>
> jsherenco () emich edu
>
> 734.487.8574
>
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>
> *From:* Gary Dobbins [mailto:dobbins () ND EDU]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2007 9:34 AM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Full Disk Encryption
>
> So, what product(s) is everyone using for full-disk on Macs?
>
> *From:* Harold Winshel [mailto:winshel () CAMDEN RUTGERS EDU]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2007 9:32 AM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Full Disk Encryption
>
> Our unit at Rutgers looked at a number of encryption utilities and, 
> for most purposes, sees the full disk encryption as our preferred 
> method, to avoid cases where the enduser may not store their sensitive 
> files in the encrypted folders.