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safeguard IS SAFE ?

Edwin Velasco

I'm checking and I see that safeguard as an encryption solution uses bitlocker, a tool that incorporates windows to encrypt this tool if it is secure, what sophos does through this is administer bitlocker




according to this article is not and if I buy this solution with sophos I would have great doubts

www.albawaba.com/.../bitlocker-encryption-method-windows-not-safe-you-thought-770444



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    Hi - That's quite an old article to be honest, but if you do enough digging you'll find holes in any/all security products. If people have the time and resources - anything that's been designed to be secure can be "un-designed" to be less secure!

    That said, BitLocker is a good standard, likewise FileVault2. Sophos simply manages these in later versions of SafeGuard and although there have been flaws/concerns Sophos have been quite prompt to patch their own issues. 

    It was only a few months back that the firmware on many SSD's was found to be insecure - bypassing BitLocker altogether. This wasn't as such even Microsoft's fault either, but an issue with the manufacturers of the SSD drives. 

    So nothing is 100% secure and effective IMO. It's about weighing up what can be acknowledged and what can be mitigated with other solutions. 

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    Hi - That's quite an old article to be honest, but if you do enough digging you'll find holes in any/all security products. If people have the time and resources - anything that's been designed to be secure can be "un-designed" to be less secure!

    That said, BitLocker is a good standard, likewise FileVault2. Sophos simply manages these in later versions of SafeGuard and although there have been flaws/concerns Sophos have been quite prompt to patch their own issues. 

    It was only a few months back that the firmware on many SSD's was found to be insecure - bypassing BitLocker altogether. This wasn't as such even Microsoft's fault either, but an issue with the manufacturers of the SSD drives. 

    So nothing is 100% secure and effective IMO. It's about weighing up what can be acknowledged and what can be mitigated with other solutions. 

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