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You can choose how many passes you want to make when erasing the data, and choose between two methods. Of course for that little bit of additional protection its a good idea to securely erase files when your done with them, and this brings us along to the DESlock+ Shredder. This allows for some versatile application, whilst ensuring control and protection over your data. Obviously files can be encrypted like this locally, as well as on removable media. Once the file is encrypted the remainder of the stick was still usable, but as expected the encrypted file is not accessible. So now we create a file, and right click for our encryption options. So next I decided to decrypt the drive, and then try just encrypting a single file. All found the drive to be unreadable, so no chance at getting at that data.

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Once the drive was encrypted a put a couple of files on there, ejected the drive and tried the stick on a windows machine, linux and Mac. So lets kick off the removable device encryption. DESlock+ detects the USB device and prompts to do its thing. So lets see what happens when I plug in a USB stick (A Dell branded 64Mb in this case). I will add a picture montage at the end of this review that shows various screen shots, so if you want to know what happens when you look further at these properties you can check them out. So everything looks as normal, although we have the DESlock+ Shredder, and a couple of new icons in the task bar. Its worth noting we have the features of DESlock+ available to us now, but we have not yet had our hard disk encrypted. So now we are presented with the Desktop to go about our daily duties. Once authenticated we need to change the password.

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So I need to authenticate myself with the DESlock+ Enterprise Server using a one time password to get things started.

So any credentials are not resolved from my domain credentials, its needs to be done manually. Its important to remember that normally in an enterprise environment you would normally be logging onto a domain, however in this example this is not the case. So to get things started we boot up our VM.

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I will basically show the shredder options, encrypting individual files, removable media and of course full disk encryption. I can tell you now the best thing for me about DESlock+ is it does what it says on the tin, with no fuss, and you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to configure your policy and get it up and running. I have a hell of alot of screenshot, about 120 or so, obviously I don’t want to post all of these, so as part of this review I will give an overview of whats going on, various configuration and functional options. The client gets its policy applied when we start up and authenticate for the first time, and we have various options available to us, but the Full Disk encryption has not yet been applied, our friend Jamie takes care of that for us remotely later.

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We have a Windows 7 client machine that has DESlock+ installed, and connecting back to DES HQ. So the starting situation is essentially this. To speed up my review Jamie Gordon (excellent guy) sent me a Windows 7 Virtual Machine with the DESlock product pre-installed, as like everyone getting the time to have a look at a product can be difficult.

So you will be happy to hear DESlock+ does encrypt and it works in a no nonsense way so with that in mind we are off to an excellent start. Lets face it the most important thing an encryption product can do is encrypt, if it doesn’t do that then we are in a pretty bad situation. When reviewing encryption products its can often be a difficult task.

Scalable centralised licence and key management.

Multiple encryption keys stored in a keyfile.

With an estimated 500,000 units in use throughout the world to date, sales of the DESkey continue to grow.

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Over the past twelve years DES has also marketed the DESkey and DESlock range of software protection products. The original users of DES products were government based, but over time have spread into other sectors. DES were founded in 1985, and the companies systems and methods originated within the British Government Communications Headquarters. As encryption is an import consideration for users at home and within an organisation, and I had been looking at a few vendors for my day job I thought it would be some time well spent, and may be of use to some of you guys.ĭESlock+ Enterprise is the product I am going to be look at, and its made by a company called DES. I had not heard of the product, so a quick search later and more information was revealed. Last year (2009) I got a call about reviewing a Full Disk Encryption product called DESlock+.

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