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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…
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/GPG Key Signing Party and Thawte Certificate Web of Trust: April 21, 2009 | A session at the Security 2009
Do you have Facebook friends? Are you LinkedIn with your colleagues? When e-mail communications involve sensitive information that needs encryption, how do you make sure you're really communic…
Implementing Whole Disk Encryption in a Higher Education Environment: May 5, 2008 | A session at the Security 2008
Baylor University has spent two years working on a large-scale deployment of whole disk encryption. The session will present the process from selecting the encryption technology to the culminating …
Big Encryption on a Small Budget: Using Truecrypt to Protect Your Sensitive Data: April 11, 2007 | A session at the Security 2007
This presentation will demonstrate how to use Truecrypt, a free, easy-to-use Windows encryption utility, and discuss the pros and cons of other encryption products to help evaluate encryption utili…
System-Wide Strategies for Achieving IT Security at the University of California: April 11, 2006 | A session at the Security 2006
The University of California embarked on an initiative to achieve effective stewardship of personal and restricted information accessed and used in the university's academic, business, and hea…
PKI: A Technology Whose Time Has Come in Higher Education: January 1, 2004

PKI technology addresses many of higher education's increasingly urgent needs for cyber security. This session presents a vision for PKI enabling strong and universal digital authentication, s…

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