Administrator Lite Posted June 2, 2008 Administrator Share Posted June 2, 2008 US government agencies are scrambling to plug one of their biggest security holes: sensitive information - names, addresses and Social Security numbers, for example - stored on laptops, handhelds and thumb drives. In the last year, agencies have purchased 800,000 licenses for encryption software through the federal Data at Rest (DAR) Encryption programme, which is run jointly by the General Services Administration and the US Department of Defense."Sales have been very brisk,'' says Fred Schobert, CTO for integrated technology services at the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service. "We've been somewhat overwhelmed.''The government's fast adoption rate of encryption software comes after numerous headline-grabbing security breaches. Laptop encryption has also been on the rise among corporations, including the likes of EMC and IBM. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 You would think that a laptop classified even Secret would be encrypted... I have yet to see a single one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt_Gundam510 Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 You would think that a laptop classified even Secret would be encrypted... I have yet to see a single one.that's true the lab tops here was stolen that had social security numbers and what ever else on them. even though they are useing things to encrypt the lab tops you can all ways get some encryptsion busting software :P . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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