Symantec Endpoint Encryption

Protect sensitive information and ensure regulatory compliance with strong full-disk and removable media encryption with centralised management.

Symantec Endpoint Encryption provides advanced encryption for desktops, laptops, and removable storage devices. It offers scalable, enterprise-wide security that prevents unauthorised access by using strong access control and powerful encryption. Symantec Endpoint Encryption provides a central management console, enabling safe, central deployment and management of encryption to endpoints.

Symantec Endpoint Encryption — Removable Storage Edition

This edition enables businesses of all sizes to maximize the productivity benefits of using removable storage devices while minimizing the risks these devices pose to data security. It enables businesses to maximize the productivity benefits of using removable storage devices while minimizing the risks these devices pose to data security. It is designed to protect all data on USB, FireWire, Compact Flash, iPod, and other storage devices and media.

• Comprehensive device and media support
• Flexible, scalable key management and password recovery
• Microsoft Active Directory Integrated Enterprise Management Console
• Kiosk mode that allows access to large numbers of people without pre-registration

Symantec Endpoint Encryption — Full Disk Edition

This is a full disk encryption solution designed to protect all data on the hard drive of a Microsoft Windows–based machine. It allows administrators to encrypt the laptop's hard drive to ensure safe harbour and, more importantly, to prevent the exposure of sensitive data should a laptop be lost or stolen. Encryption is transparent to the end user and performed with minimal performance impact.

• Flexible, scalable key management and password
• Supports multiple users and administrators on individual machines
• Provides extensive logging of status and activity of hard disk encryption application
• Encrypts data "on-the-fly" and is transparent, with virtually no performance degradation and requiring no end-user training
• Microsoft Active Directory Integrated Enterprise Management Console

Opinion & Resources

The solution complements Symantec Endpoint Protection. One of the growing risks with laptops and USB hard-drive is if they are stolen or lost and with them the loss of the information that is stored upon them. Symantec Endpoint Encryption encrypts both the hard-drive and the USB memory devices to ensure that should they be lost or stolen the local information is rendered as unintelligible and valueless.

It's worth noting that the risk of a lost laptop is not just the information loss. The laptop could be used to gleam user credential and remote access details that could lead to the whole network being attacked and compromised. If you are worried about the strength of your laptop security CST can test them and provide a full report on their strength to resist a hacking assault and data loss. Ask about laptop Penetration Testing. Nigel Lewis