Security Basics: Re: auto-encrypt all external storage devices

["Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml () gmail com>]

I received quiet a few suggestions, but only the following seem viable:

Securewave Device Control (http://www.securewave.com/usb_security.jsp)
Credant (http://www.credant.com/content/view/219/152/)
Onigma (http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/data_loss_prevention/index.html)
Pointsec (http://www.pointsec.com/products/removablemedia/)

These products only encrypt information bound for external storage
media from a protected system. Everything else remains decrypted.

Pointsec Media Encryption provides encryption for removable media by
policy such that all data added to the media bound data is encrypted.
A fully automatic encryption would cause issues for devices (e.g.
digital cameras and media players), where the media should be
readable, but if not modified (e.g. written back) then it should stay
clear text. That is why PME "only" encrypts data if it is being copied
from the protected system.

saqib
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net