Posted by bbigtim
For those who imagine that the principal reference case for use of Wave's management solution is still Papa Gino's, I offer the following article posted by 24601 on iHub. CBI Health should be distinguished from the other CBI that is a Wave customer, the infrastructure firm Chicago Bridge and Iron. CBI is also a common legal acronym which stands for "Confidential Business Information."
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CBI Health is a national network of more than 135 community and hospital-based rehabilitation, medical and health care facilities. Three years ago, Waring switched from Lenovo to Dell laptops in order to get hardware-based encryption, replacing a software-based encryption product that he found arduous to manage and unreliable. Waring found that drives encrypted with software would sometimes unencrypt themselves -- leaving the data open to theft. And "we've experienced five drive failures due to the encryption software, but none from hardware," he said.
Today, 90 of CBI Health's 200 laptops use Seagate's Momentus drives with native full-disk encryption. The other users will move to Seagate drives as they are replaced at end of life, Waring said.
CBI Health uses Wave Systems' Embassy Suite encryption management software to monitor its encrypted drives, including storing passwords.
Waring understands the concerns about lost passwords and damaged drives, but said Wave's software allows CBI Health to keep a single administrative password to access encrypted drives in case a user loses their password. In addition, Waring backs up all drives, so if one is damaged, the data is not lost.
"Our company as a whole is trying to harden every element of its architecture. We felt it was prudent to start where we are most vulnerable -- mobile devices that people leave in their cars or have in their homes," he said. |
