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Encrypted data plugin – Disk cryptography
The Encrypted Data Plugin provides an encrypted space "Safe Zone" to the machine where corporate applications can be restricted to storing their data. Today's post focuses on the foundations of encrypted disk volumes. The principles here are common to the fast majority of encrypted disk systems including at a minimum, TrueCrypt, DiskCryptor, FreeOTFE, PGPDisk and likely a bunch of others. The tech preview of the Encrypted data ...
Encrypted Data Plugin – Technical introduction
The encrypted data plugin tech-preview was released at San Francisco Synergy earlier this month. David Wagner recently wrote an introduction; his post focused on the business aspects. The post that follows provides a technology introduction and a high level vision to how things work.Some description of the early history provides a pretty good introduction to the project. Citrix is a leading proponent of Bring Your ...
Why would I need the Encrypted Data Plug-in?
There have been numerous questions around when to use the Encrypted Data plug-in. What about whole disk encryption? What about XenClient? To answer those questions, I will cover why we created this plug-in and what customer need is being fulfilled.The whole focus of this plug-in has been towards enabling IT to allow contractors and employees to leverage devices that IT would not ...
Local Data, Datacenter Protection
One of the biggest challenges in protecting sensitive data is protecting this data on highly-mobile endpoints - especially endpoints that are not directly owned and managed. Organizations who enable their employees and contractors to use their own machines are particularly at risk for data exfiltration, whether this usage is through a formal BYOC* program or on home systems. The simple fact is that ...
Encrypting only the app data just got simple
At Synergy 2010 Citrix has announced and made available the Technology Preview for the Encrypted Data plug-in. Leveraging the "Safe Zone" technology, this Receiver for Windows plug-in enables IT to encrypt the endpoint's XenApp application data on the user's device to prevent unauthorized access and protect the data. It uses the highest level of encryption (AES-256 bit) to protect the data. In case of ...