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Learn more about protecting your organization from data security threats across the enterprise with WinMagic’s White Papers.
New Drive Technologies Enable Strong Data Protection Strategies: Managing Self-Encrypting Drives in the Enterprise New Drive Technologies Enable Strong Data Protection Strategies: Managing Self-Encrypting Drives in the Enterprise
This paper examines the capabilities of SEDs based on the TCG Opal standard, as they are deployed and managed at the enterprise level within a hybrid IT infrastructure that includes a wide mix of platform architectures and storage device types.
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The Hidden Costs of Microsoft BitLocker The Hidden Costs of Microsoft BitLocker
This whitepaper discusses the known issues with Microsoft BitLocker that you need to consider before deploying it. It's hard for one vendor to be everything to everyone. The vendor with the best operating system or most powerful directory service may not be the vendor with the best security options for your business needs. Sure, it's wise to use what you already have at your disposal – i.e. BitLocker with Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise. But is putting all of your eggs into one basket and relying on a single vendor the best approach?
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Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of Laptops and Desktops Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of Laptops and Desktops
Encryption professionals put forward the proposition that destroying or overwriting the encryption key on fully encrypted hard drives is a plausible and real way of sanitizing them. This method is commonly referred to in the industry as “crypto erase”. This whitepaper compares the traditional sanitization methods (overwrite, degauss, and destroy), outlined in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800‐88, to the crypto erase method.
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5 Ways To Secure Removable Media: Which Is Best For Your Enterprise? 5 Ways To Secure Removable Media: Which Is Best For Your Enterprise?
This paper reviews the steps some organizations are taking to draft, implement, and enforce risk mitigation policies for removable media, and how technologies available today, and appearing on the horizon, are helping.
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Intelligent PC-Disable and Encryption Team Up to Protect Lost or Stolen Laptops on or off the Network Intelligent PC-Disable and Encryption Team Up to Protect Lost or Stolen Laptops on or off the Network
WinMagic, Inc.1 and Intel have collaborated to deliver an integrated hardware and software solution that combines encryption with full-system disable to bind data to the system hardware. WinMagic’s SecureDoc*1 with Intel® Anti-Theft Technology (Intel® AT)2 allows a laptop to intelligently lock itself down and prevent an OS from booting. The laptop can also lock critical elements of security credentials stored in hardware.
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Full-Disk Encryption On the Rise Full-Disk Encryption On the Rise
Best-in-Class companies experienced 6-times fewer data loss or data exposure incidents in the last 12 months as compared to the bottom performers in the study Best-in-Class companies gained 40% advantage over Laggards in terms of total cost of encryption per endpoint per year Best-in-Class companies saved an average of $33 per endpoint per year compared to Laggards for deploying and managing endpoint encryption
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9 Keys to Comprehensive Enterprise Security 9 Keys to Comprehensive Enterprise Security
Sensitive data, from trade secrets to customer data, is more valuable and hence, more vulnerable than ever. Securing the data stored within the enterprise can be challenging in dealing with the heterogeneous nature as to where this information can be stored. In addition, dealing with the deployment of an enterprise encryption solution in conjunction with balancing administrator needs and end-user needs can be complex.
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