Re: Laptop

[Sarah Stevens <sarah () STEVENS-TECHNOLOGIES COM>]

If lo-jack is BIOS-based, and one has administrative access to the laptop, what stops the person from disabling the 
software?


Sarah E Stevens
Stevens Technologies, Inc.
(704) 625-8842 x500
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Sent: Wed Jun 11 10:50:36 2008
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Laptop

Pointsec, Utimaco, PGP are major players in the whole drive encryption area. You may also want to look at built-in 
drive encryption such as Seagate's Momentus 5400 FDE Hardware-Based Full Disc Encryption. I'll take hardware over 
software encryption almost any day of the week. 

Be careful about vendor claims if you also plan to take on removable media encryption as well!

If I remember correctly, Absolute Software's lo-jack for laptops is BIOS based (so in theory it can't be tampered with) 
way to remotely inventory, track and recover (working with law enforcement)computers. Its available for Windows & Macs 
for something like $50 a year or $120 for 4 years. 
 
Enjoy,

-- 
Michael A. Rodriguez, CISSP
Chief Technology Security Officer
Western Illinois University
ma-rodriguez2 () wiu edu