Re: Encryption

[Mally Mclane <mally.mclane () BRISTOL AC UK>]

Chris,

Are you using PGP and keys, or just PGP Disk? If the former, I'd be
interested to know how you handle keys.

Mally
On 20 Nov 2013 19:39, "Chris Green" <cmgreen () uab edu> wrote:

>  Having done PGP to 4000+ laptops and evaluated other approaches, I
> highly recommend determining if you are going to have a large amount of
> platform control.   Easy encryption deployments are areas with great
> platform control otherwise there are lots of edge cases with hardware
> capabilities.
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> Re: Dell Data Protection,
> http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell_Data_Protection_Encryption_Solution_Overview0913.pdf<
>  “No
> special formatting or “containers” created on the removable drive and no
> forced copy, removal or destruction of pre-existing data”
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> I’m ignorant on it now so please raise any concerns with your sales/tech
> representatives.  Deployment wise, it seemed very nice.   However, it was
> implemented as a filesystem driver so when it wrote to disk, it would
> encrypt the contents of the files.
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> E.g   Students\BobbyTables-SSN.pdf  would still have a visible filename
> even if the content was encrypted.   That’s a great reduction but
> implementing an encryption solution is a lot of work if you still end up
> with “disclosure due to loss” scenarios on assets you’ve touched.  I
> believe they added a feature to change that.   This wasn’t an obvious
> scenario until we started discussing “how to do windows troubleshooting”.
>
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> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] *On Behalf Of *William Quan
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:30 PM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* [SECURITY] Encryption
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>
>
> Hello,
>
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>
> We’re on a fast growing campus here at the University of Washington
> Bothell.  We’re in the initial stages of exploring encryption and I was
> wondering if anyone out there had any thoughts or suggestions on this
> topic?
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> So far we’re looking at using BitLocker and maybe EFS.  We’re also looking
> at Dell’s Data Protection Solution.
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> Thanks!
>
> Will
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> *Will Quan*
>
> Computer Analyst
>
> University of Washington Bothell
>
> Information Technologies
>
> (425) 352-5487