This is a snippet from today's Edupage: SECURITY-CONSCIOUS THINKPADS IBM is offering a new feature on its popular ThinkPad laptops -- a two-layer security system to protect the mobile machines and their files. The IBM Smart Card Security kit provides software that automatically encrypts data as it is stored on a computer, and a personal ID smart card that carries the encryption key for decoding the information. In addition, an Asset ID tag prevents access to data if the computer has been removed without authorization from the designated premises. Companies can place sensors around doorways that will inactivate the computer the computer through a wireless radio-frequency transmitter. "Now you can tie the face to the asset," says Sam Dusi, IBM's worldwide marketing director for ThinkPads. "It's not just who left the building but what they left with." According to the Computer Security Institute, companies incurred losses of more than $11 million in stolen laptops during 1996 and 1997. (TechWeb 28 Jan 99) ************************************************************ Edupage, 28 January 1999. Edupage, a summary of news about information technology, is provided three times a week as a service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies. ************************************************************ you can get more info & subscribe from: http://www.educause.edu/pub/pubs.html
