All posts by Thi Nguyen-Huu

Thi is the President and CEO of WinMagic, which he founded in 1997, with a vision to create encryption solutions that are secure, sophisticated yet easy-to-use for enterprises. Today this vision has evolved to Intelligent Management for Everything Encryption. When he is not busy running and growing the company, Thi is sport enthusiastic and thus always competitive. His one concession to constant competitiveness is leading a weekly Integral Taichi CK10 class at work, which provides relaxation and harmony to his hard working WinMagicians. Thi writes from a position of constant leadership and innovation; having two past successful ventures, his knowledge and experience will offer interesting insights within the security industry.
Thi Nguyen-Huu

Using Pre-Boot Networking to Improve Key File Deployment

In our previous blog posting, we explained WinMagic’s two-stage model for enterprise key file deployment. Enterprise key file deployment is a highly complex endeavor, with many use cases for device provisioning to consider and address; additional challenges include speed, security, and scalability. To overcome these challenges, the WinMagic model leverages pre-boot networking. In this blog posting, we explain the basics of pre-boot networking, examine how it can be utilized to improve key file deployment, and study the benefits provided by using it throughout the enterprise.

WinMagic’s Two-Stage Model for Key File Deployment

Our previous blog posting explained the need for more usable and effective intelligent key management solutions for enterprises. We defined intelligent key management as a centralized enterprise product that is application aware, and that works at the lowest possible layer to provide protection for that layer and all the layers above it.

Putting Intelligence in Key Management

Our previous blog posting established that storage encryption technologies, such as full disk encryption (FDE), and their associated key management functions should be separated from each other.

Separating Encryption and Key Management

In our previous blog posting, we explored the shortcomings of software-based full disk encryption (FDE) and made the case for switching to self-encrypting drives (SED) in the long run.

The Road Ahead for Full Disk Encryption

Software-based full disk encryption (FDE) technologies have been widely adopted to protect data stored on computing devices, most often laptops or desktops.

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