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Does Microsoft claim Pre-Boot Authentication not necessary?

Is Microsoft really claiming pre-boot authentication (PBA) for Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is not necessary? One could certainly get that impression from recent articles (HERE and HERE) posted by the organization. The first article on “Types of attacks for volume encryption…

Mar 27, 2018

Garry McCracken

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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. (more…)

Jun 25, 2015

Thi Nguyen-Huu

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Waging the War on Passwords

We have seen large password hacks recently including: LinkedIn, eHarmony, and Yahoo. Hacks so large some in the industry call this the Password Wars. Unfortunately for the general public—we are losing. However, before the trumpets play, let’s give them a…

Feb 28, 2013

WinMagic

General

Smart Cards, 10 Years Later – Part 2

In my last blog, I left off talking about the different forms of authentication and the abundance of solutions available to enable multi-factor authentication (based on the directive to increase security for user authentication into laptops). (more…)

Nov 1, 2012

Rob deCarle

Does Microsoft claim Pre-Boot Authentication not necessary?

Putting Intelligence in Key Management

Waging the War on Passwords

Smart Cards, 10 Years Later – Part 2

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