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Complete security Suite - what do I get for encryption?

Nodrog

Hi

I have just upgraded to the complete security suite but i am at a loss when it comes to encryption.

I have an installer for SafeGuard Easy which I ran through and tested on a few machines. It seems to work well but I found the lack of deployment tools and managing end user keys a bit of a pain.

I then read that with the Complete Security Suite I can manage encryption from the Sophos Enterprise Console which seems to be a far simpler deployment method. So I remove the encryption from the test machines and uninstalled the SGE policy editor.

I then upgraded my enterprise console to 5.1 which sure enough has the encryption policy and deployment features in it.

I though the SafeGuard Easy was the cut down version of Sophos' encryption portfolio, but looking at the setting in Enterprise Console, it looks like the poor relation to SafeGuard Easy. Am I wrong?

There are no configuration options for removable media or changing the POA images. Is it just on or off?

Should I revert back to SGE if I want some control over my encryption?

Anybody else tried both solutions that has any views on either?

thanks

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    The Safeguard Enterprise installer can be deployed through Group Policy if you need an automatic deployment option (the installers are just .msi files that group policy can use). At our place, we manually install the software off of usb thumb drives for the pure sake of simplicity. Another idea is to set up a central network share with the installers stored on it.

    USB thumb drives and removable media are encrypted through the "Data Exchange" package. Through the management console, you can set a policy stating that either all removable media must be encrypted before use or the user can choose to encrypt the media. The management console will also keep track of the keys your user's are using. The only downside to Data Exchange is that only machines with the safeguard client installed can read the encrypted files.

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    The Safeguard Enterprise installer can be deployed through Group Policy if you need an automatic deployment option (the installers are just .msi files that group policy can use). At our place, we manually install the software off of usb thumb drives for the pure sake of simplicity. Another idea is to set up a central network share with the installers stored on it.

    USB thumb drives and removable media are encrypted through the "Data Exchange" package. Through the management console, you can set a policy stating that either all removable media must be encrypted before use or the user can choose to encrypt the media. The management console will also keep track of the keys your user's are using. The only downside to Data Exchange is that only machines with the safeguard client installed can read the encrypted files.

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