DATA AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT
• This article first appeared
in IQ Magazine – The RIM
Professionals Australasia
Quarterly and is reprinted in
Govlink with permission.
IQ: Microsoft tout their BitLocker feature,
available in select versions of Vista, as a major
advancement in identity management, data
security, and asset management. Is it all it’s
cracked up to be?
So, if I get an SMS asking me to authorise a
transaction and I’m at a pub with friends then
I know that someone is in my accounts. But
without my phone they cannot transfer money
out because they don’t have the SMS.
What would be much more
appropriate is good training on
how to do their jobs. Outside
of IT they call this Due Care,
and it’s rather important!
JT: It’s an interesting question. I was pretty
annoyed when I found out that I couldn’t play
around with BitLocker because I’m using an
older laptop which doesn’t have a TPM chip
on the motherboard. That instantly means that
any organisation that wanted to use BitLocker
not only had to upgrade all their laptops and
workstations to Vista – a harrowing thought – but
they would also have to update the hardware.
It’s a pretty elegant solution. It isn’t fool-proof,
but it’s certainly better than just a password. Of
course this will all get much better once EVM
smartcards roll out. Then you’ll be able to stick
your credit card, with a microchip, into a reader
plugged into your laptop. You’ll be able to do
transactions with even more confidence.
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