Re: SecureDoc Encryption for Macs

["Tonkin, Derek K." <Derek_Tonkin () BAYLOR EDU>]

We have quite a few folks running PGP WDE on bootcamped Macs (bootcamped with Windows, not Linux although that might 
work as well).  To say the process is complicated when you are talking about a machine that is already set up to 
dual-boot is over the top in my opinion.  All you have to do is boot into Windows, install, restart into Mac, install, 
restart into Mac again and enroll and encrypt.  I typically advise the users to allow the encrypt to complete before 
going back to Windows but once the initial disk instrumentation is done it really shouldn't matter.  When you consider 
that this is a user who is already accustomed to a dual-boot environment I don't think the PGP setup is that onerous.

-------------Baylor University-------------
Derek Tonkin
Information Security Analyst
Information Technology Services - Security
derek_tonkin () baylor edu        254-710-7061
---------------Sic 'em Bears---------------

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Chris 
Green
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:20 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] SecureDoc Encryption for Macs

PGP WDE theoretically let it work in a complicated "install PGP in bootcamp windows, install pgp in mac, copy stuff 
from NTFS partition using unnamed product, and pray"

We declared it a non-supported scenario and told them to buy vmware or parallels to run Windows stuff.   The only 
places where we had hard bootcamp requirements ended up being places like physics labs where they filled out exceptions 
since there wasn't any sensitive data to protect in the first place.

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Pebby 
Garner (Information Security)
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:38 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] SecureDoc Encryption for Macs


Hello all,

I am hoping someone can help me.  I work at The University of Texas at San Antonio.  We are in the midst of encrypting 
all university-owned laptops under a mandate from our president.  We have bought SecureDoc to encrypt the Mac laptops 
on campus but most (over 80%) of our laptops have BootCamp installed on them.  According to WinMagic, Inc., they will 
not support SecureDoc on a dual boot Mac laptop unless there is a self-encrypting hard drive installed on the laptop.  
My question is has anyone successfully encrypted a Mac laptop with BootCamp that does not have a self-encrypting hard 
drive with SecureDoc?  I have been able to encrypt the Mac side but then I am not able to boot into Windows.  Is there 
anyone who could point me in the right direction?

Thank you,
Pebby Garner

Office of Information Security

The University of Texas at San Antonio

One UTSA Circle

San Antonio, TX 78249

Phone: 210-458-7801

email: Pebby.Garner () utsa edu<mailto:Pebby.Garner () utsa edu>