Full Disk Encryption: The Next Top Security Technology
By Wilson • Feb 17th, 2009 • Category: Mobile Computer NewsData security is the latest concern of all organisations that deploy lots of computing machines, both fixed and mobile, on a network. To make the stored information more secure, security experts are looking forward to upgrading from partial disk encryption to full disk encryption. The new technology is likely to be adopted this year. But is the full disk encryption alone enough to prevent an data breaches?
The definite answer is NO. Although a full disk encryption will offer tighter security but it has its own limits and to be purely effective this technology demands a few substantial changes in the company’s security management policies and user behaviour. After all what’s the use of encrypting all the folders on a PC if the user still pen down his passwords and other hard to remember yet sensitive information on a note pad or card and keeps it in his Belkin laptop sling bag! Some users also store their passwords in their mobile in the form of sticky notes that ca be captured accidentally (or deliberately) via electronic cameras and other surveillance devices.
Therefore it’s necessary to have a security management with high level credentials to match it with full disk encryption expectations. Right from a simple USB port blocking solution to sophisticated digital rights management, all is needed to compliment a full disk encryption deployment and once it’s done the full disk encryption will be the number one security solution of 2009.
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