How can I keep data on my laptop secure?

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I am working in a company which makes website for health, fitness, mini roulette, IT, shopping etc and I was in a great need of buying a laptop. So I finally bought a Dell Latitude D530, laptop last week.
Most of the people adviced me that it would not be a good deal to buy a laptop, instead they advised me to buy a desktop. I don't know why people have so much misconception regarding buying a laptop.

I'm 99% ready to set up TrueCrypt. I travel and do not want anyone to steal my data - if they steal my laptop. What setting should I select? BB

File protection is great with passwords for access and editing. But it doesn't stop somone from accidently deleting the file.

How do I stop an accidental deletion?

See the winsesame faq about the deleting of a protected file there :
http://www.aragonsoft.com/en/winsesame/faq20.php

This is a great article and discussion. One of the things I have been pleased by is services services like Alertsec which offer hard disk encryption as a fully managed service. It uses the Full Disk Encryption (former Pointsec) software but is a web based encryption service that radically simplifies deployment and management of PC encryption. It is a heck of a lot easier for an enterprise than trying to manage all those laptop encryption on your own! We put off encryption for way too long (and got burned once) and this managed approach made it possible for us to afford it from a money and more importantly staff resource perspective.

I run Alertsec and it sure is easy. The good thing is that they have a great telephone support which help you unlock your laptop when you forget or type your password in wrongly (Which I have done twice in the last 16 months..) so it is worth that little extra you pay - compared to installing it yourself. It is encryption we are talk about here - so if you b-gger it up you are really and truly lost.

I´m using this discryptor.net software. I think that really makes ma data secure.

Hi, when installing TrueCrypt what is the best option to use: Install or Extract (for travel) ... BTW I run Windows 7 and there is a message saying is not supported ... any risk on using it despite of this !?

I just install. (Extract is useful for some cases, but if you're not sure, just install.) From what I've seen it works fine in Win 7, but I'd expect an update very quickly after 7 releases.

11-Oct-2009

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