Being a consultant, I work with clients, and with that comes the creation of documents which need to be protected by all means from unauthorized users.
Laptop theft is quite common these days, and with no protection such as encryption in place, its just a question of time before your data is exposed from the many prying eyes around.
Its always been my concern to somehow protect these documents in the eventuality that my laptop gets stolen .
A couple of commercial products are available in the market, PointSec is one of them. But my instinct was not in favour for a paid software, and I was keen to try a free product which came close to the commercial ones.
The one I choose and currently use is a software called TrueCrypt.
TrueCrypt is a Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux.
Some of the Main Features in the software as can be found on the website include:
1.Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
2.Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive.
3.Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
4.Encryption algorithms supported: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish.
More information on the software can be found at http://www.truecrypt.org/
Saturday, November 17, 2007
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