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Open source initiative aims to offer enterprise security feature without vendor lock-in Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a popular approach to encrypting data at the storage layer, beefing up ...
Sophos, a provider of enterprise security and anti-malware tools, has brought its full-disk encryption product to the Mac for businesses that are increasingly adopting Apple's computers.
At my company, we're currently investigating full disk encryption for our laptop users (we probably have 300ish). There are a lot of options on the market, and it doesn't seem clear which are ...
They are PGP’s Whole Disk Encryption and Secure Star’s DriveCrypt, both of which are reviewed here about two years ago. There are also Utimaco’s SafeGuard and MobileArmor’s Data Armor .
We have become a mobile computing society. Laptop computers now outsell desktop computers. Our handheld devices, which used to be simply phones and contact managers, now have the ability to create ...
It may be true that Microsoft has the decryption keys to your encrypted hard disk if you bought a PC with Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 preinstalled, if it supports device encryption (we still come ...
Any disk that doesn’t have full disk encryption can be broken and the contents read, particularly if stolen for that reason. Sometimes bad guys are after your good data.
Most encryption products come with their own integrated key management system. Many of these aren’t very sophisticated and an enterprise with 100s of key management systems can’t scale.
Headlines every few weeks shout "Laptop lost with 60,000 customer records" or "25,000 Social Security numbers on stolen notebook" or something equally disturbing. Given these leaks usually involve ...
Seagate and Fujitsu have both recently announced full-drive encryption technologies. Fujitsu’s new drives are aimed at laptop users, while Seagate is adding encryption capability to both its ...
BitLocker, Microsoft's disk encryption tool, could be trivially bypassed prior to last week's patches, according to recent security research. The feature, baked into Windows Vista and later ...