We're in the middle of a safeboot deployment that went through PoC very, very nicely.
For anyone unsure about file/directory encryption versus full-disk: Take your laptop with all the normal junk you can expect to have open (documents, web sessions, etc) and kill the power without a stateful shutdown. I'd suggest pulling the battery from a hibernating laptop without plugging it into the wall first. Mount that drive up and start digging through your hibernation and page files and temp directories. It won't be long before you're ready to go full disk, unless you have an extremely well defined environment that is already using multiple third party apps to control those vectors.
On 8/28/06, chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Brad. We used Securedoc and encrypted 100 percent of our laptops, and it went off without a hitch. Another division used Safeboot and had similar results. > > We found it to be less troublesome and less risky to encrypt the whole drive, and we can say with 100% certainty that if a laptop is lost, the data was encrypted. That's a nice feeling, and avoids a lot of uncomfortable post-mortem questions from Sr management and Legal if one is lost. > > Also, the data is not the only target - on pen tests I have stolen, trojaned, and returned a laptop, then harvested passwords and other info from it. > > My 2 cents - Do the whole disk. > > > BlackBerry service provided by Nextel > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Brad Judy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:24:30 > To:<[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Whole disk encryption > > > > Why? You only need to protect the data not the whole OS. It > > causes too many problems. I don't recommend creating a > > headache for yourself when you only need to protect some data. > > Yes, you only need to protect data, but can you guarantee that data is > only being written to the encrypted part of the disk? If the user can > readily write to a non-encrypted space, then you've lost much of the > benefit of the encryption because if a laptop is lost/stolen you can > only say "I'm pretty sure the data was encrypted". Check with your > legal department and see how they feel about "pretty sure". :-) > > Brad Judy > > ITS - UCB > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
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