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Re: Improving Security with Encryption

2006-11-11 00:07:42
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A wiser move would be to require all confidential documents
to be encrypted and stored on a server. Before travelling
such documents should be deleted from the laptop. On reaching
the destination, the documents should be retrieved from the
server. This way, if a laptop is lost, stolen, or in the hands
of some police agency in some country or other, there is no
corporate confidential information on it.

I've always believed that the move towards storing tons of stuff on a
laptop is a bad one.... It risks data in multiple ways. I keep virtually
no data on a laptop, and just count on having network access in some way
to get to it, or I store it on a key I keep encrypted and on/about my
person all the time when traveling, or on an encrypted r/w cd or dvd.

There are so many other ways to transport data than on your laptop's
hard drive that I have a hard time making sense of doing so.

Just my 2c.

:-)

Russ


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