crucially though... Is anyone aware of an event like this - high profile or otherwise - in which the affected company was primarily IT based or the responsible employee was a developer. If so, was it the case for that particular event that a more stringent security lock down would have been effective in its prevention?
On 2 March 2010 13:56, Phil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Encrypted harddrives? Sounds like a clueless exec paranoid about IP. > > Almost no code IP is worth anything to an outsider. Seriously, who is > > going to bother to try and figure out a competitor's code-base? > > Sounds like a huge PITA to me. For a CFO/CEO, I can understand > > wanting to have an encrypted HD. BTW, the overhead of encryption on a > > dev machine is very high. > > > > In 2007 there were a series of very embarassing, high profile data > loss events in the UK: the Inland Revenue lost some unencrypted CDs > with the tax and bank account details of over 10 million people. A > contractor for the prison service lost a memory stick containing the > personal details of prisoners due for release. A hard drive containing > details of UK driving licence holders went missing in a data centre in > the USA. > > As a result all the big consultancies accellerated their adoption of > full drive encryption as a result, for all machines, as a way to > mitigate against lost and stolen hardware. No, this wouldn't have > prevented the first two events because people did not follow their > employer's/customer's processes. It highlighted the degree of legal > exposure though and the reaction was predictable. > > I did develop on a machine running full drive encryption for about > nine months and I have to say that steady state performance was about > the only thing we didn't complain about. Our biggest problem was the > regularity with which the full drive encryption would fail, bricking > the machine as a result and taking a couple of working days to get > desktop support to get involved and run the decryption software. The > bricking rate was as high as 20% in the early days. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
