Rob,
Thanks for the email, a couple of the issues with PointSec right the last time
that I checked is that they didn't offer digital signature support, MAC agents,
and don't support encryption for Data-in-Motion. There were other deficiencies
that came up during our bake-off, but these are a few to get you started...
Don't get me wrong PointSec has a pretty decent offering and a lot of folks
like them, but I try to talk about things on list from a technical perspective
first.
An older public bake-off document was released via the link below and it might
provide value to the group.
http://www.networkcomputing.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193500189
My team developed a really cool integrated solution with several of the
whole-disk encryption solutions for multi-factor authentication and remote
access for some of our government clients and really had to dig into the weeds
to find out which solutions played better with others, so my thoughts below are
tied closely to what works well in an enterprise, what the goals of the
organization might be and what type of integration that each environment needs.
Two last notes, PGP now has a universal server and they have a MAC client with
enterprise key management for the MAC's. Lastly, TECSEC has a very flexible and
powerful solution for encrypting objects and other data in motion as well
protecting as Data at Rest. (mind you in this case that flexible also might
mean more initial set up time and effort...)
I hope that this information helps :-)
v/r
Bob
+12404756858
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Thompson [mailto:my.security.lists@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:50 PM
To: Bob Beringer
Cc: Lafosse, Ricardo; security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Full Disk Laptop Encryption
On 9/27/07, Bob Beringer <bob@eor.us> wrote:
Ricardo,
Pointsec has some limitations, other solutions that are worth looking into
are:
Which would be? I'm not trying to be confrontational, I am simply curious.
I have personally used WinMagic, PointSec and PGP. I am not familiar
with the TecSec, though I am curious as to what limitations you would
be referring to in regards to PointSec.
IMO I would use either PointSec or SecureDoc, by WinMagic. I would
stay away from PGP's product like the plague.
They are both extremely thorough. Pointsec with it's current release
is much faster, and has quite a few handy features, like disabling
removeable media until authentication, etc... I haven't used
SecureDoc since it's been Linux compliant, so I can't speak on it's
newer revisions...
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Rob
