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Re: SecureDoc Encryption for Macs
From: "Tonkin, Derek K." <Derek_Tonkin () BAYLOR EDU>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 15:51:06 -0600
We have quite a few folks running PGP WDE on bootcamped Macs (bootcamped with Windows, not Linux although that might work as well). To say the process is complicated when you are talking about a machine that is already set up to dual-boot is over the top in my opinion. All you have to do is boot into Windows, install, restart into Mac, install, restart into Mac again and enroll and encrypt. I typically advise the users to allow the encrypt to complete before going back to Windows but once the initial disk instrumentation is done it really shouldn't matter. When you consider that this is a user who is already accustomed to a dual-boot environment I don't think the PGP setup is that onerous. -------------Baylor University------------- Derek Tonkin Information Security Analyst Information Technology Services - Security derek_tonkin () baylor edu 254-710-7061 ---------------Sic 'em Bears--------------- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Green Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:20 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] SecureDoc Encryption for Macs PGP WDE theoretically let it work in a complicated "install PGP in bootcamp windows, install pgp in mac, copy stuff from NTFS partition using unnamed product, and pray" We declared it a non-supported scenario and told them to buy vmware or parallels to run Windows stuff. The only places where we had hard bootcamp requirements ended up being places like physics labs where they filled out exceptions since there wasn't any sensitive data to protect in the first place. From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Pebby Garner (Information Security) Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:38 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] SecureDoc Encryption for Macs Hello all, I am hoping someone can help me. I work at The University of Texas at San Antonio. We are in the midst of encrypting all university-owned laptops under a mandate from our president. We have bought SecureDoc to encrypt the Mac laptops on campus but most (over 80%) of our laptops have BootCamp installed on them. According to WinMagic, Inc., they will not support SecureDoc on a dual boot Mac laptop unless there is a self-encrypting hard drive installed on the laptop. My question is has anyone successfully encrypted a Mac laptop with BootCamp that does not have a self-encrypting hard drive with SecureDoc? I have been able to encrypt the Mac side but then I am not able to boot into Windows. Is there anyone who could point me in the right direction? Thank you, Pebby Garner Office of Information Security The University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio, TX 78249 Phone: 210-458-7801 email: Pebby.Garner () utsa edu<mailto:Pebby.Garner () utsa edu>
Current thread:
- SecureDoc Encryption for Macs Pebby Garner (Information Security) (Mar 03)
- Re: SecureDoc Encryption for Macs Basgen, Brian (Mar 03)
- Re: SecureDoc Encryption for Macs Chris Green (Mar 03)
- Re: SecureDoc Encryption for Macs Tonkin, Derek K. (Mar 03)
- Re: SecureDoc Encryption for Macs Brewer, Alex D (Mar 04)
- Re: SecureDoc Encryption for Macs Pebby Garner (Information Security) (Mar 04)
- Re: SecureDoc Encryption for Macs Tonkin, Derek K. (Mar 03)