![]() If you are mainly worried about laptop theft, then ask your favorite vendors how well their products withstand 1) cold boot attacks and 2) attacks using a laptop's 1394 Firewire port. Whole drive encryption is simply not a panacea. Disk encryption by itself won't stop most malware infections, network worms, password sniffing, attacks against listening TCP/UDP ports, malicious insiders, SQL injection attacks, or a hundred other bad things. Perform a quick risk analysis and ask yourself exactly what you are trying to prevent. The vendors are often not very helpful in guiding you through these issues because they want to sell you something, and the free products might cost a lot more than you think when you include technical support and user training, so keep the following questions in mind as you search for a data encryption solution. ![]() It's not even a silver bullet for Data Loss Prevention ( DLP), the latest buzzword in this field. Whole drive encryption is definitely not the security panacea the vendors make it out to be. ![]() These are the top 10 questions you should ask yourself and your vendor(s) before choosing a file encryption or whole drive encryption product.
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