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Title: Encrypting PCs Post by: chalkies_shorts on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 13:51:38 I'm gonig to be buying a new laptop for work but it needs to be encrypted - not for porn but just sensitive data. Does anyone know anything about this? I don't want to encrypt each file or folder - basically the whole PC and the option to encrypt outgoing e mail attachments. So, in effect if I get pissed and leave the laptop somewhere its useless to anyone else.
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: Samdy Gray on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 13:52:13 Won't your employer provide the software?
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: chalkies_shorts on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 13:58:19 Good question but no - setting up on my own.
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: Simon Pieman on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 13:59:41 We have McAfee Endpoint Encryption at work. It just gives you an extra login screen when your computer starts up.
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: Samdy Gray on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 14:07:32 You could use TrueCrypt, it's free.
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: LucienSanchez on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 14:55:26 I just finished a project rolling out TrueCrypt to the 200 odd laptop users this company has... Great bit of software
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: Lash_sumthin on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 15:40:29 yeah I also use truecrypt
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: chalkies_shorts on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 16:01:30 Thanks, I'll look it up and free is a good bonus.
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: Sippo on Monday, May 24, 2010, 13:35:41 For extra security, password protect booting and the bios.
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: chalkies_shorts on Monday, May 24, 2010, 21:22:26 How?
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: Barry Scott on Monday, May 24, 2010, 22:55:44 Go into your bios set-up on start-up, normally del or f2 i believe, then you can set up those passwords in there.
Title: Re: Encrypting PCs Post by: LucienSanchez on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 08:04:14 How? When you do system encryption with truecrypt, you get forced to create a pre-boot password |