[Novalug] Pointsec Hard Drive Encryption for Linux

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Fri Oct 5 16:11:24 EDT 2007


I agree. I think I'll worry more about my banking call center based out of
India.

Ken

<quote who="James Michael Keller">
> Can we all please get over the "Checkpoint is run by Mossad" crap?  They
> should be no more or less trusted then any vendor in the same market,
> which all spread their development and suppliers across international
> borders.   Everyone has a staff of EE's opening up every Cisco product
> in their shop and looking for 'extra' components coming out Chinese
> suppliers right?
>
> --
>
> James Michael Keller
>
>
> Smith, Michael J. wrote:
>> Not to be a complete fear-monger, but Checkpoint is Israeli-owned.  In
>> fact, their HQ is right across the street from Mossad HQ.  You can set
>> your own level of paranoia from there.
>>
>> Other than that, it works well.  I've only seen it done for windows.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael J Smith, CISSP-ISSEP michael.j.smith@unisys.com
>> CISO, Unisys Federal Service Delivery Center
>> 703.579.2271 O
>> 703.855.0890 C
>> "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
>> --Henry Spencer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: novalug-bounces@calypso.tux.org
>>> [mailto:novalug-bounces@calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Ken Kauffman
>>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 12:02 PM
>>> To: Ben Creitz
>>> Cc: novalug@calypso.tux.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Pointsec Hard Drive Encryption for Linux
>>>
>>>
>>> The "long phone call" is really not that long here.
>>>
>>> FYI: the client I work for is Fannie Mae that deployed this
>>> to ALL of their machines, which is approximately 5000
>>> desktops/laptops.
>>>
>>> <quote who="Ben Creitz">
>>>
>>>> On 10/5/07, Peter DeVries <peter@devries.tv> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone here every used this before?  I'm being asked
>>>>>
>>> to evaluate
>>>
>>>>> it for my company before they force feed it to the developers.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.checkpoint.com/products/datasecurity/pc/index.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Any input is appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>> I work for Montgomery County and we are just beginning to
>>>>
>>> deploy this
>>>
>>>> to my dept as a pilot.  I have a friend in the FDA... they use it
>>>> there, too.  But I've only seen it deployed to Windows.
>>>>
>>> The only pain
>>>
>>>> is when user forgets his password... recovery involves a long phone
>>>> call between your user and whoever is doing help desk
>>>>
>>> support for your
>>>
>>>> org.
>>>>
>>>> Ben
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