[FDE] New DoD encryption mandate and TPM requirements

[Mike Markowitz]

At 04:51 PM 8/16/2007, Bryan Glancey wrote:

>The included vendors from this press release are:
>
>" Products are Mobile Armor LLC's Data Armor; Safeboot NV's Safeboot
>Device Encryption; Information Security Corp.'s Secret Agent; SafeNet
>Inc.'s SafeNet ProtectDrive; Encryption Solutions Inc.'s SkyLOCK
>At-Rest;
>SPYRUS Inc.'s Talisman/DS Data Security Suite; WinMagic Inc.'s
>SecureDoc;
>CREDANT Technologies Inc.'s CREDANTMobile Guardian and GuardianEdge
>Technologies' GuardianEdge."

The vendor list in the memo might be correct, but as a product list,
it's far from exhaustive. Looks like the info was lifted from the
err-filled FCW article (or equally bad GSA press release) rather
than from the ESI BPA contract documents themselves.

Bottom line: there are many more products covered by the BPAs than
are listed here.

It's bad enough (though expected) to have to fight competitive
marketing spin, but having to counter misinformation published by
the very government agencies responsible for administrating the
ESI BPA program gets to be awfully frustrating!

-mjm