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FDE and the Opportunistic vs Dedicated Adversary (Do a Risk Assessment)

I have always been a proponent of doing a security risk assessment in order to determine the amount and depth of controls required to protect information appropriately. Risk is a function of the probability and the impact of a successful…

Nov 25, 2019

Garry McCracken

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WinMagic – our vision for better data security in a complex world.

It has been over 21 years since I founded WinMagic and started working on SecureDoc, a simple but sophisticated full disk encryption product. Over the years I have learned a lot and developed insights and opinions regarding the state of…

Aug 19, 2019

Thi Nguyen-Huu

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When and where should sensitive data be encrypted? The revealing answers might surprise you!

After having run WinMagic with the main focus as a data encryption company for more than 20 years, I asked our team for the first time last week the very basic question: When – and where – should sensitive data…

Jun 27, 2019

Thi Nguyen-Huu

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YOUR LINUX-BASED LAPTOPS, DESKTOPS AND SERVERS: DO YOU NEED TO ENCRYPT THEM TO COMPLY WITH GDPR?

On April 24, 2018 Patrick Townsend, CEO and founder of Townsend Security published a blog considering the relevance of encryption to GDPR compliance. A year later, we agree that Mr. Townsend’s blog remains a relevant starting point for enterprises on-the-fence…

May 28, 2019

WinMagic

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Great Product Development Begins with a Solid Foundation of Corporate Excellence

Enterprises are increasingly concerned about data security and data protection. They need to have access to the rights tools to ensure that users and systems administrators are able to properly protect and secure company and customer data. As a member…

Apr 3, 2019

Zia Babar

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“Extracting BitLocker keys from a TPM”

(Pre-Boot Authentication: Wisdom in Security – Part 3) In my September 2018 blog “Pre-Boot Authentication. Wisdom in Security Part 2” I concluded that: “Bottom Line: ‘No PBA’ is not a wise choice for enterprises Microsoft’s reasoning that you don’t need…

Mar 18, 2019

Thi Nguyen-Huu

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Five Observations from RSAC 2019

Last week I had the privilege of attending the 2019 RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. As in past years, the keynotes, technical sessions and sidebar conversations were a great opportunity to learn what is top-of-mind in the security industry. …

Mar 15, 2019

WinMagic

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Working Hand-in-Hand with Microsoft Provides Customers Confidence in SecureDoc Windows 10 Compatibility

Customer confidence in your solution is critical to success. That’s why WinMagic works diligently to ensure that our solutions support the environments that our customers use. And for most of them, that’s Microsoft Windows. For years, WinMagic has participated in…

Feb 22, 2019

Aaron McIntosh

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Linux Servers and Encryption – the Need and the Solution

In the past, I have tried to make the case for encrypting physical servers on premises. The argument for not needing to encrypt them is that these servers usually run for weeks, months, or even years without being brought down.…

Jan 24, 2019

Garry McCracken

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Full Drive Encryption, Key management and MBAM

(Microsoft announces end of mainstream support for MBAM as of July 2019) WinMagic’s CEO, THI NGUYEN-HUU, has blogged in the past about the ideal architecture for Full Drive Encryption, and Key Management (Separating Encryption and Key Management). By separating key…

Dec 14, 2018

Garry McCracken

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Self-encrypting deception: Weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs)

In the past few weeks I have been looking into the fallout from the paper [PDF] by Carlo Meijer and Bernard van Gastel from Radboud University, the Netherlands titled “Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs)”. From the…

Dec 7, 2018

Garry McCracken

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Your Feedback Is Important To Us

For me, the title of this blog entry isn’t just a marketing slogan or a catch phrase. It’s something that I take very seriously because, just like the metrics that I keep track of, acting on feedback from customers allows…

Nov 26, 2018

Kevin David

FDE and the Opportunistic vs Dedicated Adversary (Do a Risk Assessment)

When and where should sensitive data be encrypted? The revealing answers might surprise you!

“Extracting BitLocker keys from a TPM”

Working Hand-in-Hand with Microsoft Provides Customers Confidence in SecureDoc Windows 10 Compatibility

Linux Servers and Encryption – the Need and the Solution

Full Drive Encryption, Key management and MBAM

Self-encrypting deception: Weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs)

Your Feedback Is Important To Us

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