Comments on: Personal info lost on 540,000 New Yorkers http://www.infosecpodcast.com/2006/07/personal-info-lost-on-540000-new-yorkers/ Information Security related news, opinions and ramblings Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:44:08 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Nathan Kully http://www.infosecpodcast.com/2006/07/personal-info-lost-on-540000-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Nathan Kully Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:25:29 +0000 http://www.infosecpodcast.com/industry-news/2006/07/personal-info-lost-on-540000-new-yorkers/#comment-17 Thanks for the article Chris, it is true that Windows has made improvements in its EFS, however these days it seems like the use of third-party encryption software is almost mandatory. Unless Vista makes enormous improvements in (like you said) the administration/managing tactics in its EFS, third party products are going to be absolutely neccessary if you want to be sure your files will be safe. Thanks for the article Chris, it is true that Windows has made improvements in its EFS, however these days it seems like the use of third-party encryption software is almost mandatory.

Unless Vista makes enormous improvements in (like you said) the administration/managing tactics in its EFS, third party products are going to be absolutely neccessary if you want to be sure your files will be safe.

]]> By: Chris http://www.infosecpodcast.com/2006/07/personal-info-lost-on-540000-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Chris Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:29:40 +0000 http://www.infosecpodcast.com/industry-news/2006/07/personal-info-lost-on-540000-new-yorkers/#comment-15 Nathan, Encryption is one way to help, no question. Windows has made improvements to EFS but it's still a pain to administer / manage..at least in my opinion. Sepaking of which, here is a good article on EFS I saw today. http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Understanding-EFS-Windows-2003.html --Chris Nathan,

Encryption is one way to help, no question. Windows has made improvements to EFS but it’s still a pain to administer / manage..at least in my opinion.

Sepaking of which, here is a good article on EFS I saw today.

http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Understanding-EFS-Windows-2003.html

–Chris

]]> By: Nathan Kully http://www.infosecpodcast.com/2006/07/personal-info-lost-on-540000-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Nathan Kully Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:56:58 +0000 http://www.infosecpodcast.com/industry-news/2006/07/personal-info-lost-on-540000-new-yorkers/#comment-14 It's our own fault these days that so many people are losing laptops or other computers. After the VA incident it seems like companies would have taken MORE precautions to protect their information, but it's only gotten worse. Why are companies/organizations still keeping sensative information on laptops when it has been such an issue? Furthermore, why aren't these companies ENCRYPTING, because if they did decide to encrypt all of this data we wouldn't be having all of these problems today. That's a pretty bad double whammy Chris - receiving both letters in the same day. We need to help companies open their eyes to the times and start protecting their data like they mean it! http://www.techknowbizzle.com/2006/07/you-can-do-that-concise-drm-lesson.html It’s our own fault these days that so many people are losing laptops or other computers. After the VA incident it seems like companies would have taken MORE precautions to protect their information, but it’s only gotten worse. Why are companies/organizations still keeping sensative information on laptops when it has been such an issue? Furthermore, why aren’t these companies ENCRYPTING, because if they did decide to encrypt all of this data we wouldn’t be having all of these problems today.

That’s a pretty bad double whammy Chris – receiving both letters in the same day. We need to help companies open their eyes to the times and start protecting their data like they mean it!
http://www.techknowbizzle.com/2006/07/you-can-do-that-concise-drm-lesson.html

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