data security

We handle confidential personal or business data almost every day. In order to to avoid being hacked, I am trying to figure out how to protect our data. Encryptng data is an easy answer but repeated encrytion and decryption of data everyday would be inconvenient chores. I am wondering how you...

If you have visited my web page or read my blogs and messages, you'll probably know that I stongly discourage using partitions on a hard drive... mainly because if the partition table gets corrupt you lose EVERYTHING. However, check out this: Why it may be a GOOD idea to partition a drive...

Well, that pretty much says it all. I encrypted a directory with bitlocker in Vista Ultimate and then did a new install with Windows 7 Professional. The encrypted file is on another disk. Is there anyway I can decrypt the file? As you might expect, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Link Removed Dwma needs to return a dead hard drive to the manufacturer, and asked the Answer Line forum for a way to first remove sensitive data. Hard drives almost always contain some potentially compromising information, such as credit card and social security numbers. You should always...

Link Removed After reading Link Removed, LaTonya Powell asked whether online backup services such as Mozy (which I recommended in that tip) are really secure. That's a good question. Identity theft is a serious problem, and we should all be concerned about it. I should add that I'm a Mozy...

Hey guys, I have a problem :frown: Has anyone played with bitlocker? I have encrypted my drives and made a usb key. This works great but thought I need to duplicate the key - just in case... When I go into "manage bitlocker" I put in another USB stick and click "duplicate the startup key"...

Hi, I am thinking about purchasing Wipe Drive Pro for $90.00. Alternatively I could purchase the new Windows 7 if it had a feature to wipe my drive clean of older files with some kind of encription tech. I would rather spend the money on Windows 7 if it had this. Does anyone know if any of...

I normally have acronis do a complete clone of my drive daily. If I bitlock the drive and then try to clone, will the clone know the key & work perfectly or not? If not, is there a way to get this to work? Can I access the bitlock drive from another computer on my peer to peer network with the...

can any one tell me a file eraser/shredder that works with windows 7 as i have tried to find one and can not find one that has the right click to shred files.:( any help will be appreciated:) Thanks

Ok this isn't a new program its more just an updated one that many of us may have used for annoying all those big brother places looking over our shoulders over the years, NOTE: this is not a firewall, you'll still need one...what this does is filter and approve traffic flow from a constantly...

Can anyone recommend software or the best way to wipe a hard drive clean, absolutely. I don't won't to spend days writing x and o's over a hard drive two or three times to erase. Thanks, Walter

So far so good running Windows 7 (which was a nice surpirse :razz:). However, just wanted to know if I will get into trouble when I decide to go downgrade back to Windows XP. I created a couple of user accounts in Windows 7 and moved the documents folder of each user to another partition...

Hi Dose any know the maximum size USB storgae that the Bit-Lock on windows 7 can encrypt.

I have Verisoft Access Manager installed and running on my HP Vista laptop. Also have Norton Intenet Security installed. At times, a popdown Norton ID Safe wants me to set that up. Has anybody compared Verisoft to Norton ID Safe? Presently, Verisoft works fine and dandy for me, as I only...