Re: [Fed-Talk] Army to Encrypt Computers
Re: [Fed-Talk] Army to Encrypt Computers
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Army to Encrypt Computers
- From: Rex Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:06:35 -0700
Similar draft policies are circulating in other Government agencies.
Expect this kind of request to become common in Government purchasing
requirements soon.
And no, FileVault is not the answer to every encryption request.
-- Rex
At 12:49 PM -0700 8/23/06, Jim Emmons wrote:
>In a recent speech, the Army CIO/G6, LTG Steve Boutelle, said that within
>the next few weeks, all mobile computers (that are removed from secure
>areas) will need to have the data on the machine encrypted. The approved
>encryption software packages named are all Windows-based.
>
>To meet this new requirement, is there any Mac-based (or further *nix-based)
>software available that has been approved? If so, where can we get it, and
>what are the costs?
>
>The article may be found on Government Computing News at
>http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/41759-1.html.
>
>(In a more humorous vein, I would like to see someone encrypt a computer, as
>opposed to the data on the computer - see the headline of the article.)
>
>Thanks,
> Jim
>
>James Emmons
>Computer Scientist CISSP GSEC IAM
>Information Assurance and Security Engineering Directorate
>U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command
>
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