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Full Disk Encryption

Full Disk Encryption
As the mobile workforce heads out with their laptops, how can an organization keep the company information stored on those laptops safe?  This is the question that disk encryption products try to answer.  Although there are many file/folder level encryption products (also known as vaults), this page will focus on Full Disk Encryption (FDE) products.
 
Full Disk Encryption is the process by which every bit of data that goes on a disk is encrypted. This can be performed by software or hardware.  Everything on a disk, including the operating system, is encrypted. There are also products that can encrypt everything but the system partition or boot partition of the OS, but can fully encrypt a second hard drive.  To boot from a fully encrypted disk on a standard personal computer requires hardware assistance as there is otherwise no other way for the BIOS to decrypt and transfer program control to an encrypted master boot record (MBR). There are software programs that can encrypt bootable operating system partitions but they must still leave the MBR, and thus part of the disk, unencrypted.

FDE has several added benefits compared to regular file or folder encryption, or encrypted vaults. For example, Everything including the swap space and the temporary files are encrypted, ensuring no confidential data is inadvertently left unprotected.  Also, with FDE the decision of which files to encrypt is not left up to users.  And it provides a method for immediate data destruction, as simply destroying the cryptography keys renders the contained data useless.  Purging or physical destruction is still advised in instances where the data needs to be protected from future attacks.
However, FDE does not necessarily replace the requirement for file/folder level encryption. This is because once the FDE drive boots up, all the data is available in a decrypted format.  If a network connection to the running laptop can be obtained, then the data is exposed.

Many mobile computer manufacturers include a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip in their current product set.  The TPM provides the means for hardware and software to generate and store keys for use in digital certificates and encryption, securely and in an encrypted format. The TPM also provides the cryptographic engine to perform encryption, decryption, and digital signature operations.  No person ever sees the private keys used for encryption in TPM-enabled applications, as they are stored on and processed by the TPM itself.  Some FDE products support and/or require TPM.


Last reviewed by Michele Jordan on 30 Jan 2008

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AlertBoot

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The privacy and protection of confidential customer and corporate data assets is one of your biggest concerns. It's one of ours too. The AlertBoot suite of data security software was created to provide a highly-scalable and centrally-managed data encry ...

VendorData Guard Systems Inc
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2008-11-19

SafeGuard Easy

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SafeGuard Easy full disk encryption software encrypts your entire hard drive, rendering data completely undecipherable to unauthorized users. Users work uninterrupted as SafeGuard® Easy encrypts and decrypts your hard drive's data seamlessly, providing tr ...

VendorSophos PLC
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2009-09-21

Check Point Endpoint Security

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Check Point Endpoint Security™ is the first and only single agent that combines all essential components for total security on the endpoint: highest-rated firewall, antivirus, anti-spyware, full disk encryption, media encryption with port protection, ne ...

VendorCheck Point Software Technologies Ltd
Pricing ModelCommercial
ModifiedNever

Entrust Entelligence Disk Security

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Entrust Entelligence™ Disk Security, based on the award-winning Pointsec for PC technology, can enable automatic full disk encryption for laptop and desktop security. Full disk encryption protects all data on the disk, including the operating system, al ...

VendorEntrust
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2008-11-19

Windows Bitlocker Drive Encryption

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Windows® BitLocker™ Drive Encryption (BitLocker) is a data protection feature available in Windows Vista® Enterprise and Windows Vista® Ultimate for client computers, and in Windows Server® 2008. BitLocker addresses the threats of data theft or expo ...

VendorMicrosoft
Pricing ModelFreeware
Modified2009-02-26

FlagStone Encrypted Hard Drives

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FlagStone Encrypted Hard Drives Designed specifically for Government environments Two different models: FlagStone Baseline and FlagStone Enhanced FlagStone Baseline protects government Restricted data - Restricted data at rest is reduced to Not Protectively Marked One Clear View pass ...

VendorStonewood Electronics Ltd.
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2009-09-11

PGP Whole Disk Encryption

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PGP® Whole Disk Encryption provides enterprises with comprehensive, nonstop disk encryption for Microsoft and Apple Mac OS X, enabling quick, cost-effective protection for data on desktops, laptops, and removable media. The encrypted data is continuously ...

VendorPGP Corporation
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2009-02-28

globull

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As Architect of an Open World, Bull has designed and developed globull, an innovative device to respond to the need for high levels of security in mobile computing. A device you can trust globull lets your users take their work environment with th ...

VendorBull
Pricing ModelCommercial
ModifiedNever

TrueCrypt

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TrueCrypt TrueCrypt can on-the-fly encrypt a system partition or entire system drive, i.e. a partition or drive where Windows is installed and from which it boots. System encryption provides the highest level of security and privacy, because all files, including a ...

VendorTrueCrypt Foundation
Pricing ModelOpen Source
Modified2008-11-24

Safend Encryptor

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Safend Encryptor Safend Encryptor is a hard-disk encryption solution that leverages the security of full-disk encryption and the flexibility of file-based encryption to protect sensitive data residing on PCs and laptops. By encrypting only data files and avoiding encryp ...

VendorSafend
Pricing ModelCommercial
ModifiedNever

PGP Whole Disk Encryption

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PGP Whole Disk Encryption provides enterprises with comprehensive, nonstop disk encryption, enabling quick, cost-effective protection for data on PCs, laptops, and removable media. The encrypted data is continuously safeguarded from unauthorized access, p ...

VendorCE-Infosys
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2008-11-19

EMBASSY Trusted Suite

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Wave Systems' EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) delivers advanced levels of security to the client PC using the TPM security chip found on most enterprise PCs today. ETS 6 features a variety of secure business productivity capabilities with an easy-to-use securit ...

VendorWave Systems Corp.
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2008-11-19

Free CompuSec

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FREE CompuSec® is a Security Suite that protects Notebook, Desktop and Tablet PCs. It provides Access Control, Single Sign On, Hard Disk Encryption, CD encryption, file encryption, network encryption and VoIP encryption. This version of CompuSec® is fre ...

VendorCE-Infosys
Pricing ModelFreeware
Modified2008-11-19

CompuSec HSM & CompuSec Mobile

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The CompuSec® HSM is the hardware based encryption security suite for Desktop PCs that provides Access Control, Hard Disk Encryption, Email Security, VPN Client, File and Media Encryption, and Single Sign On. The product is developed on a 32-bit PCI boar ...

VendorCE-Infosys
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2008-11-19

HIBUN AE

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Controlling sensitive information flow begins with a well-thought-out total security plan — a corporate scheme that sticks to compliance issues, ties in clear policy directives and ends with thorough end-user training. HIBUN Advance Edition (HIBUN AE), ...

VendorHitachi Software Engineering, Ltd.
Pricing ModelCommercial
ModifiedNever

X-Wall ASIC Family

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Enova®'s patented X-Wall ASIC family has been engineered to encrypt/decrypt the entire hard disk bit-by-bit including the Boot Sector, Operating System, Temp and Swap files. Encryption/decryption operations occur in real-time to ensure zero performance d ...

VendorEnova Technology Corporation
Pricing ModelCommercial
ModifiedNever

SecureDisk Encryption Device

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Secure Communication Systems’ SecureDisk™ technology utilizes a proprietary ASIC engineered to encrypt/decrypt the entire hard disk bit-by-bit including the Boot Sector, Operating System, Temp and Swap files. Encryption/decryption operations occur in ...

VendorSecure Communication Systems, Inc.
Pricing ModelCommercial
ModifiedNever

SecureDoc Disk Encryption

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SecureDoc Disk Encryption provides full disk encryption to protect sensitive information stored on laptops, desktops and PDAs. By offering integration with popular tokens and PKI at preboot time (after bios POST but before the OS loads) with dual and trip ...

VendorWinMagic Inc
Pricing ModelCommercial
ModifiedNever

Check Point Full Disk Encryption

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Based on market-leading Pointsec® technologies, Check Point Endpoint Security Full Disk Encryption™ is proven in enterprises, businesses and government agencies around the world, providing the highest level of data security for laptops and PCs through ...

VendorCheck Point Software Technologies
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2009-02-20

DriveCrypt Plus Pack

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Full disk encryption with pre-boot authentication Ideal to encrypt an entire computer /notebook/ partition or just a single Hard drive. With DCPP the Hard drive (including the operating system) is encrypted 100%, therefore unauthorized person will not be ...

VendorSecurStar GmbH
Pricing ModelCommercial
Modified2009-03-03
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