http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/encryption/229403079 By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek May 09, 2011 One-third of security professionals who handle encryption don't understand self-encrypting hard disk drives. In particular, they're unsure whether the drives are better or worse than software-based encryption for preventing tampering, managing encryption, or handling authentication keys. Those findings come from a recent survey of 517 IT practitioners who are at least familiar with self-encrypting drives, conducted by Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), which promotes hardware-based, vendor-neutral security specifications. Today, when full disk encryption is used on a PC, software-based approaches are the norm, with 85% of survey respondents saying that's their primary approach. According to the survey, however, 70% of IT professionals also think that self-encrypting drives would help their organization to protect data, but many worry about the related hardware cost. Perhaps counter-intuitively, 37% of respondents also said that they "would pay a premium" for related data security improvements, according to the study. As that range of responses and awareness levels suggests, self-encrypting drives currently face an awareness challenge. "There are real advantages to hardware-based encryption solutions, which are obvious, but there are perceptions that they're costly, unwieldy, … or might even cause diminished end-user productivity," said Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, in a telephone interview. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Tue May 10 2011 - 00:33:40 PDT
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