[Gllug] [OT] Disk Encryption

[Stephen Nelson-Smith]

Hi Steve,

>> I have a number of Macbooks which contain commercially sensitive
>> information, and which are sometimes taken off site.
>>
>> I've been asked to provide disk-based encryption to protect the data
>> in the event of loss or theft.
>>
>> Have any of you done this before?  I'm currently looking at:
>
> We handle a lot of /very/ sensitive data in my company and we use
> FileVault. Users have to be disciplined not to keep data outside of
> their homedir (but note that random bits of the FS are mapped there
> anyway), but the UI encourages that anyway.
>
> It works very well, and works securely with TimeMachine, which is
> critical.

Thanks.  This was my first thought too.  I'm going to do some tests
shortly with Knox and PGP too.  My biggest concern is performance.

Could you explain the issues around working with TimeMachine?  Do some
products not play nicely?

S.
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