Posts Tagged ‘security’

PGP WDE Beta Supports Snow Leopard

PGP Desktop 10.0 Beta has just been released, with full support for Snow Leopard 32 and 64 bits. This is very good news for all the security concerned people who were stuck on Leopard (including me)!
PGP Announced this on their beta blog, on this post.
If you want to participate to the beta, here is the [...]

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How an online backup can save your day

A good online backup solution is something that you setup once, and forget till the day you need it.
Personally I use a service called CrashPlan, and I can only recommend it. You can decide to use a different tool, the ideas highlighted here will probably still apply. CrashPlan is composed by a multi-platform application (available [...]

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Backup Strategy

You do have one, haven’t you? If you don’t, you might find what follows interesting. I will describe my own backup strategy, which is probably an overkill for most users’ needs, but will give you an idea of some available options and the corresponding “recovery time”. I mention the recovery time because for me it’s [...]

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PGP WDE Performance Analysis

After posting the previous article, I have done some tests on a disk encrypted with PGP WDE, and benchmarks show that the performance hit is quite big. Strangely, there is no visible difference during the normal use.

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Securing Data on a Mac

This article covers the different options available on the Mac to secure confidential data.

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