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Posted by byteandswitch.com on March 12, 2008
IRVINE, Calif. -- With hardware encryption having become a de facto standard in its own right, vendors debated the pros and cons of crypto at the system, device, and file levels this morning at the Data Protection Summit here.
There were the familiar entreaties to make sure keys are escrowed in a way that makes them easy to access over the long term. There was the call to use standards-based technologies (and the retort: "Standards are wonderful -- every vendor should have one"). And there was a familiar refrain to avoid obsolescence as enterprises add to their storage security arsenal.
One vendor actually took on the challenge implicit in the session title: "Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Drive Encryption Today." Warning he wouldn't be nearly as funny as David Letterman, Chris Burchett, CTO of Credant Technologies Inc., Addison, Texas, nonetheless enumerated some major -- and less obvious -- aspects of contemporary encryption wisdom:
- No. 10: When your boss says, "Encrypt all endpoints," think "all platforms."
- No. 9: All endpoints may also include devices you don't own -- partners' devices, USB drives that users may leave behind, and the like.
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