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Behind the Scenes: A Look at Our Laptop Encryption Protection

March 6th, 2010 by admin Leave a reply »

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Today we’re going to to do a little bit of self-introspection and try to demonstrate why we think Encryption is necessary in fast paced world and why it makes sense to use Alertsec’s encryption protection.

In a recent report yet again, McAfee which is a leading maker of Internet security software had given strong warning that there are many hackers who are targeting the intellectual property systems being used by the hackers. They also believe that it is time that the security focus is increased. This is the latest addition to the attacks on Google which revealed where they originated in China and resulted in theft of its intellectual property.

Infact, we always believe that the single most important asset for an organization is the information itself. With transition from Web1.0 to Web2.0 the deskops are being increasingly replaced the laptops and have become the major computational source.

The majority of the data loss occurs to due the loss or theft of the equipment. However, it can be easily controlled with the installation of a laptop encryption system. Essentially what it does is ensure that there is no loss or damage to the information or credentials.

According to the FBI, losses due to laptop theft totaled more than $6.7 million dollars in 2005. The Computer Security Institute/FBI Computer Crime & Security Survey found the average theft of a laptop to cost a company $89,000. Depending on the information kept on a laptop, lack of proper security precautions allows a thief to easily acquire such information as personal bookkeeping files, documents containing passwords, addresses, as well as employee and customer information stored on company laptops.

Nevertheless, statistics tips it is quite evident that there is big loss of laptops due to theft. Infact, we’ve also found out that as many as 1 in 10 laptops will be stolen during its lifetime.

We at Alertsec Xpress offer full disk encryption which is superior to other encryption methods when comparing security, performance, robustness and ease-of-use for both administrators and users.