Re: [Fed-Talk] Whole Disk Encryption?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Whole Disk Encryption?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Whole Disk Encryption?
- From: "Nichols, Jared - 1160 - MITLL" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:46:40 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Whole Disk Encryption?
We use SecureDoc and it works pretty well. The only issue, which is I think
inherent of all full disk encryption products, is that when something goes
wrong, it only goes wrong very badly.
We work very closely with SecureDoc and making sure that the latest Apple
hardware and OS is supported by their product. (The first Unibody MBP threw
them for a loop with the new grphics card.) The only hangup is that when
there's a new OS point release, if the SecureDoc product doesn't yet support
it and the user updates their machines, they'll brick it.
I know, big problem.
We get around this by putting machines with SecureDoc in a separate upgrade
cycle so that they do not get forced OS updates. We pay much more attention
to these machines to ensure that the updated SecureDoc that supports the new
point release is pushed to machines first, and then we'll enable the updated
OS for them.
One major down-side is that if you're going from say 10.5 to 10.6, you need
to do a full decrypt, upgrade to 10.6, then a full re-encrypt. Long
process.
j
On 1/20/10 8:24 PM, "Robert Nicholson" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Is there any opinion on experiences from SecureDoc WDE and PGP WDE? PGP WDE
> has 10.x which now supports Snow Leopard but SecureDoc already supports Snow
> Leopard. PGP WDE seems to be considerably easier to buy than SecureDoc from
> what I can tell and I like that PGP has a support forum that's active. I've
> seen PGP WDE work reliably in Leopard but have no experience with it in Snow
> Leopard. Has anybody been able to find out how much SecureDoc for Snow Leopard
> actually costs? Personally I hate the whole reseller model it's so out of
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Jared F. Nichols
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Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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