In today’s competitive business environment organizations are making increasing investments on IT infrastructure, devices and software. Needless to say, laptops are an inherent part of your organization’s growing business plan.

Today, laptops hold critical business data including sensitive customer information and this is where encryption is constantly considered to the best method to ensure data security.

Organizations must deploy encryption as a part of their overall security protection methods. One thing that needs to be considered is the pitfalls of encryption. Today, many of the encryption softwares come security flaws and loopholes which allow attackers easy ways leading to compromise in the organization’s data. Some of the common issues are Algorithm Management, Key Length, Key Recovery, Scope of Protection.

A stolen laptop without encryption is often the first step towards identity theft and fraud. 80% of information theft results from lost or stolen equipment. 50% of network intrusions take place using credentials from lost or stolen equipment. With laptop security, none of the information or credentials would have been lost.

Goal of laptop encryption/disk encryption

Assuming the unthinkable happens and one of your laptop is stolen, what would you do? That missing laptop contained intellectual property and critical data which included the information of customers, their financial records and information on future business strategy and product roadmaps.

Let us say you’re caught in a similar situation, you would want the data on your computer hard-drive to be nullified or in other words you would want your hard-drive to be encrypted.

To protect information stored on a desktop or laptop is by using encryption. Alertsec Xpress offers full disk encryption and offers stronger options to other encryption methods when comparing security, performance, robustness.

Why Alertsec Xpress is different?

1. Strong Support: Users who forget their password simply call the Alertsec helpdesk. No matter when or where you are, our helpdesk can always assist legitimate users regain access to their information, using the Alertsec Xpress Authentication Method.
2. Secure disposal of old laptops: You can easily move away from your old laptop. When it is time to decommission your laptop or PC, you can simply reformat the disk and it will be impossible for anyone to ever recreate the information.
3. Secure & Trusted: The Check Point Full Disk Encryption software solution is trusted by companies, governments, military organizations, and individuals around the globe and its secure design has been approved through independent security tests and certifications.
4. Built in security measures: Alertsec Xpress will detect boot viruses or debugging programs and prevent these from interfering with the authentication process.

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