Each
year, thousands of laptop and desktop systems are lost, stolen, or
compromised. If you can't
afford the exposure of sensitive information relating to your company
or personal business then you should consider adding encrypted
filesystem tools to your security repetoire. Even if you use S/MIME or
OpenPGP for protecting the privacy of your
emails, other files on your
hard drive are not protected from unauthorized access. GnuPG
can be used to encrypt
individual files using either
symmetric or public key crypto but it is not a viable system for
hundreds or thousands of files.
There
are products which can provide
encrypted filesystem containers which show as new drive letters in your
Explorer window. Any file you place in these drives is automatically
encrypted. But setting up and using these containers is not necessarily
trivial and it is certainly not trivial in high-security environments.
System settings have to be tweaked and other applications must be set
up correctly because security is only as strong as the weakest
link.
A lot of development has been done on transparent support for native
filesystems on Linux and UNIX-like operating systems. Any supported
filesystem (ext2/ext3, Reiserfs, jfs, etc.) can now be implemented as a
fully-encrypted filesystem with a wide choice of ciphers.
We can help you choose an encrypted filesystem product that
meets
your needs from among proven, industry standard products.
Encrypted filesystems and encrypted file containers should be part of
any comprehensive
security strategy.