[FDE] Fw: FDE - Can we manage it?

[Saqib Ali]

Hello Chip,

I am assuming that you use Utimaco for FDE since Utimaco is a partner of IBM.

I have a question about Utimaco:
With Utimaco FDE I was unable to revive the laptop after hibernation.
The laptop would just do a cold reboot.

Is this intended behavior, or is it because I was Demo version of Utimaco?

thnx
saqib
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net


On 11/8/06, Chip Coy <coy at us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Manageability is a key ingredient to getting a full disk encryption solution accepted by an organization.
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> Utimaco's enterprise solution has good key management and central administration (that is, some way for the help desk to let someone who has forgotten their passphrase but can provide enough other information to assure identity back into their laptop): http://www.utimaco.com
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> I've heard the same thing from one of my clients about SecureDoc: http://www.winmagic.com/solutions/securedoc-ent.html
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>  Chip Coy
>  Associate Partner
>  Security & Privacy Services - http://www.ibm.com/security
>  Phone: 1-512-823-0728, mobile 1-512-848-6323, fax 1-845-264-6126
>  Assistant: Julia Martin, juliamtn at us.ibm.com, 1-317-566-4081
> ----- Forwarded by Chip Coy/Austin/IBM on 11/08/2006 01:18 PM -----
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>  "Laundrup, Jens" <Jens.Laundrup at METROKC.GOV>
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> 11/08/2006 11:44 AM
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> To "Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml at gmail.com>
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> Subject [FDE] FDE - Can we manage it?
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> After many years in the area of cryptography, I have seen that it can be
>  managed the hard way.
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>  Saquib,
>  Of the products you tested, you covered access times, features, price
>  and such.  You did not reference any remote management capability to
>  speak of.  Are you considering adding that at a future date?
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>  All,
>  I am embarking on a major encryption initiative where I am starting with
>  FDE for laptops (approx 2000), but them moving on to desktops (approx
>  8000), servers (800-900) and storage (tapes, then e-mail etc.  As you
>  all know, there are many systems out there that do some segment very
>  well and a few that do many of them.  Each vendor is also very good at
>  presenting strong arguments for selecting their products.
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>  The problem is that key management has always been the bane of my
>  existence.  Is there a product that you know of that is capable of
>  managing and controlling keys effectively (ie: does not require a team
>  of people working full time on key management.
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>  Jens
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Saqib Ali, CISSP, ISSAP
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net