AlertBoot Full Disk Encryption — Comprehensive Security for Complete Peace of Mind

Data security is serious business.  And when people get serious, they go for the best.  When people find out that I work for AlertBoot, they will often ask me, "What is the best laptop disk encryption software?"  I would be doing a disservice to the company if I didn't say AlertBoot.

DataBreaches.net has a link to NH AG's website, where a letter from the North Pacific Group is on display.  Apparently, computer equipment, including several laptops, were stolen from their offices in Portland, Oregon over Thanksgiving weekend.  It's quite apparent that they were not using data encryption like AlertBoot endpoint security software since they claim that sensitive employee information was "in hidden locations on these computers and are password protected."

A council employee has lost a USB memory stick that contained sensitive information.  The employer, Neath Port Talbot council in south Wales, has launched an investigation and is declining to comment on the case until it is concluded.  It seems to me that if disk encryption software like AlertBoot was used to secure the data on that flash drive, perhaps the council may not be so silent on the issue?

• Hard drive encryption encrypts data but not your files
• Minimize the risk of not encrypting sensitive files
• Performance hits? Not applicable for most people

There is something to be said about the convenience of full hard drive encryption software like AlertBoot, as opposed to the use of file encryption software.  Granted, both are excellent ways of protecting sensitive data.  However, one is more foolproof than the other.  (I'm referring to hard drive encryption, of course.)

When it comes to protecting your external hard drives using encryption, you've got two options: external hard drive encryption and file encryption.  While I have already detailed the difference before, I might as well go a little more in depth.