Secure Office – Data Safe

  • Encrypted Archives
  • Encrypted Disk
  • Boot Protection
  • Enables secure, cost-effective teaming
  • Permits secure routine maintenance
  • Role-based access to encrypted data

Secure Office Encrypted Archives: enable multiple users to share network-stored encrypted data. Encrypted files can be stored on shared file/web servers for easy access while maintaining high security standards to achieve simple solutions without deploying a fully encrypted network.

Even when the client computer is disconnected from the network, a user can edit files offline. When the user re-connects to the server at a later time, the system updates the older versions of the documents on the server to reflect any changes, benefitting travelling or distance professionals who need to work offline and maintain the security of their shared data.

Secure Office Encrypted Disk: An entire hard disk partition on the user’s workstation or laptop is encrypted and dedicated for all working files while system files reside on a clear text partition.

Encrypted Disk enables an organisation to protect all confidential information while leaving system files unaffected. This means that machines can be maintained in the normal manner without special procedures such as hard disk removal to protect confidential information.

Partition keys are created centrally and crypto-graphically linked to the keys on a user’s smart card. Access control is to the key itself. Only users with the correct role bound to their smart cards can decrypt the key. A key can have multiple, differing roles set up to access it so that any user having any of the roles can access the encrypted partition for remote collaboration or open working environ-ments with shared workstations.

Boot Protection: prevents a computer from being started from a diskette with subsequent access to the hard disk. It is a fundamental element in a security system because if someone can access the C: drive after booting from a diskette via the BIOS, logon security cannot prevent them from accessing locally stored information.

Even though most BIOS can be configured to reject booting from drive A:, the hard disk is still not secure because it can be moved to another computer whose BIOS permit A: drive booting. Additionally, the BIOS on any machine will lose their native configurations if power to the BIOS chip is interrupted, returning to their default values i.e. permit-ting A: drive booting.

Secure Office Boot Protection prevents boot up from any removable media even if the disk is moved to another computer, by scrambling the partition data so that the partitions are not recognisable, protecting information stored on PCs, portable laptops and unattended servers from unauthorised access.