Data Security for the Micro ISV
If, like me, your entire life can be found on your laptop, then you might want to take a look at the new release of Truecrypt. Truecrypt
has been arguably the best encryption tool available for a while, but a
big gap in its abilities has been total encryption of the system drive.
That gap has been plugged.
As of version 5, you can instruct Truecrypt to encrypt your boot partition. This it can do from a running system, and you can carry on working whilst it does its thing.
Truecrypt installs a boot
loader that prompts for a password. Only with the password can your
drive be read, even if taken out of your machine.
I have a couple of USB thumb-drives that I use every day, an
external USB hard drive, and a laptop, all of them eminently
thieve-able. If you’re a micro ISV, you may well have customer details
on there, credit card information, source code etc. If we want to be
trusted with such precious things as a customers details, we should be
protecting those details with the best technology available.
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