For those of you needing to ensure the security and privacy of your data on your handtop, check out this information: link
The Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs was released by the SA-SC (Solutions Acelerators - Security & Compliance) team and I highly recommend that every handtop owner take a look and read it. XP & Vista provides some great technology that you can use for free to secure sensitive data but there can be some caveats, this toolkit does a great job of explaining that and giving some great implementation details. The two components now available for download are as follows:
1. Executive Overview
Provides a high-level overview of the Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs to understand the business and regulatory risks of losing data on mobile PCs, and how you can use the guidance in this Solution Accelerator to mitigate these risks.
2. Security Analysis
Discusses a number of unique risks associated with data on mobile PCs in depth, and analyzes how Microsoft's key encryption technologies, EFS and BitLocker, can help you mitigate those risks. The Security Analysis is available on TechNet and the Microsoft Download Center.
The following will be released soon:
1. Planning and Implementation Guide
Describes how to plan for, configure, deploy, and operate EFS and BitLocker.
2. EFS Assistant
Allows you to centrally control EFS settings on all of your mobile PCs (and many desktop PCs). The EFS Assistant will help you find all the files on your mobile PCs that need to be encrypted, regardless of where you save them. And the EFS Assistant operates transparently to end users, eliminating training issues or other impacts.
I hope this helps.
The Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs was released by the SA-SC (Solutions Acelerators - Security & Compliance) team and I highly recommend that every handtop owner take a look and read it. XP & Vista provides some great technology that you can use for free to secure sensitive data but there can be some caveats, this toolkit does a great job of explaining that and giving some great implementation details. The two components now available for download are as follows:
1. Executive Overview
Provides a high-level overview of the Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs to understand the business and regulatory risks of losing data on mobile PCs, and how you can use the guidance in this Solution Accelerator to mitigate these risks.
2. Security Analysis
Discusses a number of unique risks associated with data on mobile PCs in depth, and analyzes how Microsoft's key encryption technologies, EFS and BitLocker, can help you mitigate those risks. The Security Analysis is available on TechNet and the Microsoft Download Center.
The following will be released soon:
1. Planning and Implementation Guide
Describes how to plan for, configure, deploy, and operate EFS and BitLocker.
2. EFS Assistant
Allows you to centrally control EFS settings on all of your mobile PCs (and many desktop PCs). The EFS Assistant will help you find all the files on your mobile PCs that need to be encrypted, regardless of where you save them. And the EFS Assistant operates transparently to end users, eliminating training issues or other impacts.
I hope this helps.
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