With the implementation of vista
coming to desktops (ultimate and Enterprise for sure) will have Bit locker as
part of the o/s. Until then I have been using truecrypt for my xp
machines. I have not done so on 2k or 2k3 servers from fear of
performance hits with back ups on those nodes. There are few pitfalls,
but losing your decryption password/key is the biggest concern… with any
encryption. I love Biometric options myself to secure machines, but
encryption is apples and I just brought up an Orange.
Have a good day Firm.
Timoteo "Timo" Vasquez - AIS
Departmental
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Firmin
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 12:43 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Encryption on File servers, desktops and laptops
Encryption is something that I have been thinking about for
a while now and a lot of the solutions that I have seen are extremely user
unfriendly, very costly, and sometimes has little management features OR
if you look at free solutions there is usually no management of keys which
could be tricky when keys are lost or passwords are forgotten.
Protecting data through encryption is a great way to go, we
all can agree there but as that data moves from servers to laptops and/ or to
other mobile devices, it can become exposed.
Is anyone encrypting their file servers? If so what are you
using?
What about email? Not only on the servers but what about on
the desktops?
Is anyone encrypting their laptops’ hard drives?
Firmin
Charlot, MCSE, A+, Information Systems Manager
Office of the Vice President for
Student Affairs and Services
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