Re: In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops?

["Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml () gmail com>]

Try Hardware based HDD encryption coupled with TPM. See:
http://www.full-disc-encryption.com/lurker/list/fde.en.html

On 6/12/06, Mike Foster <mike () mytechcoach com> wrote:
> In light of what has happened with the theft of the VA laptop, what are the "best practices" for securing laptops?  Am 
> curious how all of you feel about the options.
>
> How do  you feel and/or what is your experience with:
> --Power-on passwords in the hardware/CMOS/BIOS Setup
> --Hard drive locking passwords in the hardware/CMOS/BIOS Setup
> --Laptops equipped with fingerprint readers for the above two options
> --Windows NTFS EFS encryption
> --TrueCrypt from www.truecrypt.org for encrypted storage areas
> --Trusted Platform Module (TPM) https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org
> --Tokens that plug into USB
> --Others?
>
> Thank you in advance...


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