Yeah you can get away with it in that kind of environment, we (briefly) looked at it and it wouldn't be manageable for us. 450 users, 25+ travel almost constantly, 3 offices in 3 states...
For small shops Truecrypt is likely perfect. Dave -----Original Message----- From: S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: laptop encryption Google.com Learn it. Live it. Love it. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:53, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: > How many laptops and how many locations? Many remote users? How does it work > when a user forgets their password? > > Dave > about 30 laptops, one location, although people bound around the region quite a bit, we use truecrypt Full disk encryption, and the password.... ah yes... that's why we have the rescue disk, all the ISO's are saved, and I burn them as needed (not often). never had a user forget. we use a passphrase. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~