We use Pointsec for PC from Checkpoint on the laptops here. Only the reload staff and the desktop engineering team have the password. So if you pull your own drive it's useless to you and if someone else gets it, it's useless. It doesn't make the user input any passwords at boot time though.
Don K ________________________________ From: Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 9:11:10 AM Subject: Re: Encryption On 5 May 2010 at 8:12, [email protected] wrote: > We use TrueCrypt here on a couple removable drives and two laptops. For > the laptops, we have the entire drive encrypted. So when the user powers up > the laptop, they are prompted to enter in a password (right after the bios > loads). Once the password is entered in the OS loads and if the user forgets > or doesn’t have the correct password then the OS won’t load. With TrueCrypt the user can change the password. PGPdisk had a master password. I don't think TC does. How do you manage that at the corporate level? -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
