News tagged with 'Data Encryption'
Here you will always find the latest news about the broader topic of Computer Encryption.
GuardianEdge Selected by Seattle Children's Hospital
Here is a quote form Sys-Con.com. Good news for the safety of patient records in Seattle.
We salute these kind of news and are happy to post about them on computer-encryption.com.
Endless cases of employees losing their laptops or USB sticks with unencrypted data could soon be history if more institutions were to implement better security for [...]
Army Updating 750,000 Computers with Vista for Better Encryption
The US Army has announced that it is going to employ Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 on 750,000 computers over the course of this year.
This is one of the largest employments of Vista in government history and has been done with a long delay in order to test the system and wait for critical [...]
Data Locker by Originstorage – Hardware-Based Full Disk Encryption
It looks a bit like one those fancy devices from a very old science fiction movie. A big black box with a digital key pad on it is not exactly how I would have pictured a full disk encrypted external hard drive. It does make perfect sense, though and seems like a great idea.
With the [...]
PGP to Release Whole Disk Encryption for Small Businesses
PGP (www.pgp.com) has announced the release of a new simplified and cheaper version of its Full Disk Encryption solution. The new tool will be targeted to 10-100 users and address some of the main critique the company has received for its corporate solution.
The market leader for corporate encryption software is known for the complexity and [...]
First Encrypted USB Stick for Apple's Mac OS X
Out-of-the-box encryption for USB sticks is nothing new and has been on the market for quite a while now.
The usually more expensive devices come with built-in technology automatically encrypting all data stored on them, providing strong protection against data leach and unauthorised access to your files.
One of the biggest disadvantages of these solutions has always [...]
The Risk of Full Disk Encryption – Solved by a Cell Phone
A major disadvantage of Whole Disk Encryption (also Full Disk Encryption) is the fact that your data is not protected while the computer is turned on, or even while it is in stand by. (We’ve highlighted this and more in our post “Whole Disk Encryption vs. File Based Encryption“.)
Assuming you decided to protect your data [...]
No Cell Phone Encryption – Mc Donald's Sued for $3 Million
A couple from Arkansas is suing Mc Donald’s for $3 Million after they found rather “revealing” pictures on the Internet. The cell phone containing these private photos was left in a Mc Donald’s store in Arkansas that promised to hold on to it until Philip Sherman, the plaintif would return to pick it up. It [...]
Laptop search at US Customs. Does Encryption help?
According to an article on CNN.com (see article) US Customs- and Border Protection agents are legally allowed to search your laptop. They don’t need a valid reason to do that, everybody is subject to this search. While I certainly don’t have anything on my laptop that would put national security into any sort of danger, [...]