Re: [Fed-Talk] Encryption of OS X
Re: [Fed-Talk] Encryption of OS X
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Encryption of OS X
- From: "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:45:33 -0700
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Encryption of OS X
None of the ones listed support management of Seagate self-encrypting drives. As Allan said in another thread, a SED is much faster than any software-encryption application.
On Oct 8, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Qureshi, Usman wrote:
> Sophos is another solution.
>
> www.sophos.com
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> Another managed solution is Check Point Full Disk Encryption.
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> On 10/8/10 2:53 PM, "Marcus, Allan B" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> we use WinMagic. PGP doesn't support self encrypting drives, which is much
>> faster then SW based encryption. Also, PGP uses a reusable recovery
> password
>> whcih we found unacceptable.
>>
>> Filevault is free, but it's the slowest one out there.Also, FV only
> encrypts
>> the home directory, not shared, not /tmp, and not /var. it's a good
> solution
>> for a hobbyist, but there's no enterprise management of keys.
>>
>> The only two enterprise solutions I'm aware of are PGP and WinMagic.
>>
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Allan Marcus
>> 505-667-5666
>>
>> "Fast, cheap, good. Pick two"
>> -- Project Management mantra
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Bryan William Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Quick question for the list:
>>>
>>> What encryption methods does everyone recommend for OS X. It seems that
>>> adding a firmware pass followed by using FileVault should work. Does
> Time
>>> Machine work with FileVault now?
>>>
>>> Last time I used my organizations firmware software, it caused an
> absolutely
>>> unacceptable decrease in performance (unusable). This laptop did not
> have
>>> any PHI data on it or classified information so I managed to get an
> exemption
>>> back then, but they are attempting to force everyone to use encryption
> now.
>>> Is anyone using PGP? How does it perform?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bryan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bryan William Jones, Ph.D.
>>> email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>
>>> http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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