Results for: Encrypted data plug-in - Traffic Cop
XenVault – Protecting access to the secrets!
I use KeePass from SourceForge to store passwords for numerous websites. Generally, this is held on a USB stick that I can add to a computer when I need a password, then remove - back to the safety of my pocket. If I lose the USB stick, the password database is encrypted and all is safe. I ASSUME that I'll lose lots of the USB ...
XenVault – My American Express card number was stolen
My American Express card received a bunch of bogus charges last week. Black Friday is now evil for more reasons than just crowded shopping centers! The bogus charges were easily fixed. American Express made them disappear before they even showed up on my WWW logon. So all is happy at the home front, but this does get me going on a security thread.Losing one ...
Securing application data through multiple logons
Crackers are changing. Don't think geeky kid at the end of the street, think organized crime, well financed with large teams of talented programmers. Don't think "senders of SPAM", think takers of your money. I've started to think this way and I find myself rather paranoid. Maybe they really are out to get me?I'm pondering the quickly improving capabilities of my adversary and ...
Stodgy IT, client virtualization and XenDesktop Feature Pack 2
The IT executive experience I was listening to a customer on stage at a conference a few weeks ago proudly explaining how he had managed to police the number of devices in his organization. He accomplished this by effectively implementing three key strategies.1) Create red tape, and make the end user produce business justification and feel silly about why the corporate issued solution was not ...
Encrypted data plug-in – Traffic Cop
The Encrypted Data Plug-in's missions include providing an encrypted container called the "safe zone", giving the safe zone a drive letter and defining a Windows Library to point into it and finally to steer corporate data into the container. This blog discusses the steering. First some definitionsCorporate app: Application that is permitted to see into the safe zone Personal app: Application that is restricted from seeing into ...