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The HEISC Technologies, Operations, and Practices Group has created a page on Full Disk Encryption.

Full disk encryption (FDE) is a security safeguard that protects all data stored on a hard drive from unauthorized access using disk-level encryption. With FDE, all data is encrypted by default, taking the security decision out of the hands of the user. The most common use case for implementing FDE is to protect data loss due to lost or stolen laptops, which is often sufficient enough to avoid costly data breach notification requirements.

The purpose of this guide is to provide worthwhile strategies for implementing full disk encryption throughout your organization, and to identify common pitfalls to avoid. The following topics are covered on this page:

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Seminar 01P - How Tokenization and Point-to-Point Encryption Can Reduce Your School's PCI Scope (or Not): May 15, 2012 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2012
Two emerging technologies have the potential to reduce campus merchants' PCI scope while also reducing the risk of a damaging data breach: tokenization, the process whereby payment card data a…
Mobile Internet Device Security Guidelines: June 29, 2011

This document is designed to help you develop mobile Internet device security policy, standards, guidelines or procedures. It is organized into steps you can follow to define your objectives…
Catch a clue from an EDU: Universities that get security right: May 20, 2011

In these days of consumer gadgets and mobile access, corporations can learn a lot from how universities deploy multiple layers of security. In these da…
Protecting Portables: August 20, 2010

As mobile devices proliferate on campus, IT staff build lines of defense to secure hardware and information. As mobile devices proliferate on cam…
University of Kansas Medical Center Operational Protocol: Mobile Device Security: August 11, 2010

The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for the appropriate use and configuration of mobile devices as necessary to protect the KUMC network and\or information from unauthorized acce…
Ten Steps to Secure Your Mobile Device: August 4, 2010

This Higher Education Information Security Council resource includes US-CERT recommendations and suggested steps to take when securing campus mobile devices, as well as links to higher educa…
Hot Topic Discussion: Mobile Data Paranoia—Three Perspectives on Encryption: April 13, 2010 | A session at the Security 2010
Emory University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of Colorado at Boulder recently initiated projects to eliminate the threat of data leakage from lost or stolen mobile d…
Filelocker: Simplifying Secure File Transfers: April 14, 2010 | A session at the Security 2010
Purdue has developed a web-based secure file transfer program to allow the secure sharing of files among administrative, security, and research faculty and staff. Filelocker allows users to easily …
PGP Whole Disk Encryption Implementation: October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
Lehigh University has implemented PGP Whole Disk Encryption for faculty and staff computers using PGP Universal Server as a tool for managing installation policies and encryption keys. This present…

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