Noticed an interesting bit of news today: Link
Basically, Seagate announced some new FDE drives, Dell is now OEM partner for the drives, and the new drives will include software from McAfee for the enterprise wide management of laptops. Hold on... so basically McAfee's takeover of Safeboot was not to gain a leg up on the software based FDE market. Instead, they only wanted Safeboot so that they could use/extend their management software to manage an HFDE solution. :>)
As I mentioned before, and as I will mention again. SFDE is a dead-end option in my opinion for laptops. This is just but the first of many news bites we should start to see which will place the final nail in SFDE based solutions. Granted... SFDE will stay around and in some cases, it does have its place. For example, with mobile devices and (yes) within the virtualization space (if someone can make it work right) I might advocate an SFDE solution. But, as an enterprise solution for laptops the days are number. :>)
I must have started to become a news reporter or something, cause that is two news stories in a row.
With more than ten years of experience in IT, Tyson Kopczynski has become a specialist in Active Directory, Information Assurance, Windows automation, PKI, and IT security practices. Tyson is also the founding author of the Windows PowerShell Unleashed series and has been a contributing author for such books as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Unleashed and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Unleashed. He has also written many detailed technical papers and guides covering various technologies. As a consultant at Convergent Computing, Tyson works with and provides feedback for next generation Microsoft technologies since their inception and has also played a key role in expanding the automation and security practices at CCO. Tyson also holds such certifications as the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), the SANS Security Essentials Certification (GSEC) and SANS Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), and the MCTS (Application Platform, Active Directory, and Network Infrastructure).
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