Re: Laptop

[Zach Jansen <zjanse20 () CALVIN EDU>]

There are a few major players in the area, Utimaco, Safeboot, Pointsec, PGP and a couple of others. Do you need mac 
support or do you plan to use filevault? AFAIK only Pointsec currently has a Mac client, though Utimaco is planning to 
release one in the fall. Do you need Novell support? I don't think any of the vendors supports it well, though Utimaco 
did the best in our testing. Some vendors don't support it at all. Who is your AV vendor? Check with them to see if 
they own or partner with a vendor (Mcafee and Symantec do for sure), you may be able to get better pricing from them. 
If you have a pretty standard configuration (Microsoft only, Active Directory), and you're not looking for extra 
features beyond encrypting the drive and reporting back that the drive is encrypted, the products are pretty similar. 

If you're in the public education sector you may be able to get on the GSA contract described here: 
http://www.privacy.ohio.gov/resources/SafeBoot/SafeBootCoopFAQ.pdf I'm told we would have been able to get that pricing 
if we weren't a private college. 

As far as full disk vs file/folder encryption, the general thought is that nobody trusts the users to know what files 
to encrypt. Unless you have the machines locked down so they can't put confidential information in unencrypted folders, 
I don't think this is a good idea. Not to mention the threat of sensitive information showing up in page or temp files 
that aren't encrypted. I chose to go with a FDE solution because of this, which is why I avoided Credent. 

I don't have any experience here with the lo-jack type products. They seem really nice, but we don't lose enough 
laptops to justify the cost. 

Zach



> > > On 6/11/2008 at 12:57 PM, in message <485003F0.5090901 () wayne edu>, Chuck
McCants <cmccants () WAYNE EDU> wrote:
> Hello All,
> I'd appreciate hearing what laptop encryption products are in use out
> there and preferences in whole disk encryption vs. file/folder encryption.
>
> Also, any experience with Absolute Software and their lo-jack product
> Computrace would be helpful.
>
> Thanks.