Back to the articlePosted Tuesday 21st October 2008 10:14 GMT
Good news for the British Government #
They need something like this as soon as possible.
PGP takes disk encryption management into the cloud
PGP is aiming to exploit concern about the security implications of lost laptops with the launch via its resellers of a managed service for the administration of whole disk encryption. Partners ANI Direct, Aurora Enterprises in the US and Gradian Systems in the UK will be the first to offer a pay-as-you-go laptop security …
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Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 12:06 GMT
@William #
Yes, but they'll install it on all privately owned PCs (probably as a trojan) so that unregistered devices can be shut down and citizens expressing dissent via email can be removed from interaction with "reasonable people".
It wouldnt go on government PCs or their contractors. Unless there's anything personal about "VIPs" on there
Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 23:45 GMT
@Michelle Knight #
I was just wondering the same thing, actually!
Posted Wednesday 22nd October 2008 09:30 GMT
Nice idea #
of course you can set up your own, but for those without the nous or inclination, but have the desire; a good little money earner it makes for PGP.
Posted Wednesday 22nd October 2008 20:02 GMT
The risks are obvious #
Sounds like the service Dell are offering.
The "ability to remotely disable lost or stolen laptops" is scary. How soon before the wrong laptop is disabled by accident or a faulty laptop disables itself?
Posted Thursday 23rd October 2008 09:28 GMT
Been around for 3 years already #
Alertsec (www.alertsec.com) has been offering this for SMEs for 3 years already and has a world-wide audience. They are using the Check Point (Pointsec) software as the encryption engine on clients.
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