Passpack rolled out with a great new feature… Now everyone with a Twitter (or FriendFeed) account can log right into Passpack in under 25 seconds! (Check out the nifty 24 second screen cast.) How awesome is that? Today seems like a great day to start securing your online accounts with stronger, longer and better passwords with Passpack’s help.
I recently sat in a meeting to discuss our company’s laptop security practices. Now, we aren’t a publicly traded company but we should be protecting out data to the best of our abilities without impacting the user too much. There we many topics discussed in this meeting — everything from encryption of the HDs to using encrypted thumb drives to CMOS passwords/HD passwords via the CMOS. It was a fun time and explaining why certain processes would be helpful and others wouldn’t was quite a challenge.
I think we finally came to the realization that encrypting all of our hard drives was not going to be a viable option. The major issue we face is we have too many older laptops that do not offer hardware encryption on the drives. Software encryption is an option but in my experience it’s a slow and painful process that usually requires some work on the user’s end to make it function properly. (more…)
