According to Network World, the federal government is stepping up its commitment to data security by adding full disk encryption software to 800,000 laptops. This is pretty encouraging, but there are still a lot of laptops and portable devices left to go.

The software products, which are being purchased through the Data at Rest program, is only costing the government about $10 per license. This is good news for everyone as taxpayers, and it’s also encouraging in that budgetary concerns are unlikely to prevent agencies from continuing to secure more and more devices against data loss from theft or misplacement.

It’s always nice to read about companies or government agencies being proactive about security. While this may be an overdue step, it’s one that I’m still quite glad to see taken.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 6:37 pm by Walt Turnes and is filed under data protection. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.