I hate to sound like an adobe sales person (I'm not, but I do like their
acrobat line of products), but they have a product that serves as a document
policy system. Check out adobe document center.
Also, I don't like using MAC's for anything including as a computer :-) or a
method of what IP/vlan/access a system can have because pretty much most all
NIC's allow you to change their MAC. Now the 3Com cards on the other hand use
crypto keys stored right in the card. I'd like to see that spoofed.
Geoff
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Rob Thompson" <my.security.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:58:32
To:"Bob Beringer" <bob.beringer@usa.net>
Cc:"Lafosse, Ricardo" <rlafosse@sfwmd.gov>,security-basics@securityfocus.com,
"Bob Beringer" <bob@eor.us>
Subject: Re: Full Disk Laptop Encryption
On 9/27/07, Bob Beringer <bob.beringer@usa.net> wrote:
MAC agents, I do not know what you are referring to with this.
Meant to be "MAC FDE" == FDE for PowerBook, MacBook Pro's, ect...
That's hilarious. That is NOT at all anything that I had considered.
I was thinking more along the lines of MAC address, networking,
somehow something is being verified that the laptop is encrypted or it
was not allowed on the network or something of the sort... ;p
Data-in-Motion - are you talking about data after it has physically
left your hard drive. Ie. e-mail, thumbdrives, network traffic,
etc...
Exactly! Now encryption can be managed centrally or remotely and can
ensure cryptographically based chain of custody, from the sectors on the
drive, through the Network and then on to the destination system or even
to the field level in databases that might live on the destination systems
as well. Everything is encrypted at the object level, so you can
literally have a single word document that allows for three different
viewers to see different levels of redacted documents or the like (there
are many other cool things that their solution does, but this is one
technique...)
That is pretty nifty. That type of functionality I didn't even think
was possible. I will be checking into this for sure.
<snip>
More setup time and effort is a small price to pay when you have a
more efficient and properly configured solution deployed. It is well
worth the time, IMO.
Agreed, but sometimes you want to know that the solution is going to take
a bit of effort to properly plan and deploy, so that you don't assume it
will be less effort and wind up over budget or red in the face due to
over-committing to the folks around you. (So it was my way of putting a
small disclaimer and friendly heads up, so that you know that along with
more power comes more responsibility ;-))
I hear you there. I have found through my excessive blunders in the
computing world that have turned me into the find Computer Nerd that I
am today (If you could only "hear" my sarcasm... ;p) that it's best
to plan on the worst. That way, if things actually go as desired and
not as they "do", then you can take that extra time and run out for a
beer or two.
I will have to check into this TECSEC. My curiosity is piqued. Thank
you for the tip.
Ask to talk to Jay Wack and tell him that Bob Beringer sent you, he is a
busy man but he is the right guy to talk to...
I hope that this information helps :-)
It sounds like it will. Funny, I didn't get involved in this thread,
looking for a new vendor. But I'll have to check into the TECSEC.
It'll be a while, as I'm swamped right now, but I will post my results
some time in the future. From the sounds of it, it sounds like we may
have an alternative to our current solution.
<snip>
--
Rob
