Re: Disk Encryption for Solaris 9

On 2008-03-12, Wolfgang <wtrappe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
BertieBigBollox@xxxxxxxxx schrieb:

why do you have to encrypt stuff everybody can download by themselve?

I would guess that it's policy rather than a technical reason.

The large number of laptop thefts and losses, along with lots of
sensitive data in some cases, means that many organisations now mandate
whole-disk encryption of any laptop that may be carrying sensitive
material, the view amongst the security community being that file-system
level encryption is insufficient protection. Bertie might get an
exception for a jumpstart server to do a vanilla system build, but if
there's any sensitive data included in the build then he's not going to
be able to get around the requirement.

So there's clearly a market for whole-disk encryption on laptops, but
whether there is a market for Solaris on laptops which is big enough to
justify the effort of a whole-disk encryption product, is another
question altogether.

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