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Laptop Security - harddisk encryption necessary? Jackie 03-19-2007
Posted by Jackie on March 19, 2007, 7:26 pm
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Hi,

There are few cases that a corp lost their laptop with customer
private information - in which case all the countermeasure of security
within a corp are not applicable such as your firewall, IDS, auti-
virus, anti-middleware etc.

Then it sounds fair enough to intruduce harddisk encryption. However
there 2 layer protection already there - BIOS level and OS - Windows
user level authentication. now my questions are how week are they? how
the stealer of the laptop exploit the data?

Many thanks,


Posted by Barry Margolin on March 19, 2007, 8:51 pm
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> Hi,
>
> There are few cases that a corp lost their laptop with customer
> private information - in which case all the countermeasure of security
> within a corp are not applicable such as your firewall, IDS, auti-
> virus, anti-middleware etc.
>
> Then it sounds fair enough to intruduce harddisk encryption. However
> there 2 layer protection already there - BIOS level and OS - Windows
> user level authentication. now my questions are how week are they? how
> the stealer of the laptop exploit the data?

Take the disk out of the stolen computer and connect it as an auxiliary
disk on some other computer.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***

Posted by Jackie on March 19, 2007, 9:38 pm
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Thanks, you are right.

I heard there are two popular tools for harddisk encryption - from PGP
and Utmaco, do you have experience on them? beside whole disk
encryption, do they support logical drive/directory/file level? do
they have evaluation version?



Posted by Notan on March 19, 2007, 10:18 pm
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Jackie wrote:
> Thanks, you are right.
>
> I heard there are two popular tools for harddisk encryption - from PGP
> and Utmaco, do you have experience on them? beside whole disk
> encryption, do they support logical drive/directory/file level? do
> they have evaluation version?

Google "hard disk encryption."

The first 10 or 15 hits should point you in the right direction.

--
Notan

Posted by Jackie on March 20, 2007, 1:29 am
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Thanks, I tried, but I wonder how to rank them for different vendors,
does google do it? is first appeared the best/most popular?


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