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    File Protection Systems for Laptops on windows

    Hi all,

    I've been asked to look into file protection systems for laptops, but to be honest, this subject and google don't seem to fill me with confidence... theres so much security stuff out there that who to trust is a big issue, so I thought I'd ask here and maybe someone with some real world experience of this could help out.

    Basically, a client has bought some new laptops (Asus), and my boss has a "file vault" on his Acer which "shows up as an extra drive letter when you unlock it with a password". And we're wondering if theres anything out there "off the shelf" that would do the same kind of thing we can install on the new laptops?

    Preferably some big names so as to have a sense of security, but I just don't know where to start looking.

    Any help is appreciated.

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    Re: File Protection Systems for Laptops on windows

    Truecrpyt is a well respected open source version of the same thing. If I remember the names of the commercial stuff I've seen before I'll edit/update.

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    Re: File Protection Systems for Laptops on windows

    I have used Bestcrypt nice as it works across platform. Some versions of windows have Bitlocker which will encrypt your complete hard drive, so windows will not even boot without the password. This would be best for laptop, however you need to make sure people turn the there laptops off/hibernate them rather than suspending them.
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    Re: File Protection Systems for Laptops on windows

    Ive used PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) before and its a good product (at least the enterprise version is, the desktop version as it has no central management can be a PITA to manage)

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    Re: File Protection Systems for Laptops on windows

    Thanks for the leads guys.

    Much appreciated
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    Re: File Protection Systems for Laptops on windows

    +1 for truecrypt.

    If you want a commercial product, look at Becrypt
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    Re: File Protection Systems for Laptops on windows

    Another vote for whole disk encryption under PGP.

    Saves making sure that any protected data is stored under encryption, rather than people forgetting to store it in the directory.

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