WinMagic, an award-winning
encryption and key management solution provider, announces today that it has
recently delivered the first known enterprise-class managed full drive
encryption solution for Linux. The new capability empowers the company to
assist enterprises struggling with managing encryption of their Linux-based
devices.
Linux
users are commonly the most technical users in an organization, and rely on the
platform for its flexibility and robustness to deliver an enterprise's
workloads. This includes a reliance on Linux's built-in tools -- dm-crypt, cryptsetup, and Linux Unified
Key Setup (LUKS) -- to encrypt their devices and manage their encryption keys.
While Linux's encryption toolkit is the best at encrypting Linux-based devices,
the operating system can further benefit from the encryption management
solutions provided by Independent Software Vendors (ISV), like WinMagic, to
manage and unify encryption efforts across an enterprise.
Comprehensive
protection and online conversion
From
encryption set-up to IT Admin turnover and password resets, managing Linux'
basic tools independently pull resources away from more important tasks.
WinMagic's SecureDoc
full disk encryption helps enterprises lock down their
Linux-based devices, and provide greater control than ever before.
SecureDoc
separates encryption into two components - encryption and key management -
because the expertise to deliver these two components is quite different. In
the case of Linux, SecureDoc works seamlessly with the native encryption,
layering on top of dm-crypt to better manage device encryption. As covered in a
recent blog
discussing the benefits of full disk encryption for Linux, Garry McCracken,
vice president technology, CISSP at WinMagic, describes how SecureDoc takes
Linux encryption management to the next level, permitting online conversion
which allows admins and users to log-in and work on the machine while
encryption occurs, and removes the need to clear the disk and re-install the
operating system before commencing encryption - saving enterprises valuable
time and money.
Enterprise
Manageability
Compliance
isn't easy, or at least it hasn't been. For enterprises facing potentially
crippling penalties for a compliance failure, a seamless and integrated key
management solution for Linux- and Windows-based laptops, desktops, or servers
is essential. With WinMagic's SecureDoc, operation, management and recovery of
the devices are all possible within a single console. For auditors, each
device's encryption status is tracked to ensure its data is in a protected
state, and is viewable in a single pane of glass - giving business leaders the
certainty they need to pass a compliance audit. SecureDoc also enables pre-boot
network-based authentication as an additional security measure to ensure data
on drives is never left unprotected during boot-up. In the event of theft,
loss, unauthorized access or decryption attempts by power users, with the
assistance of WinMagic's intelligent key management, the drive can be quickly
crypto-erased, mitigating any damage.
"Interestingly,
the development of this full disk encryption for Linux laptops/desktops came
after our launch of our cloud solution for Linux servers two years ago," said
Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO of WinMagic. "Originally an endpoint vendor, we
traditionally ported our products to the cloud, but this time it is different.
To our knowledge, the enterprise-class software-based encryption solution for
Linux on top of dm-crypt is unique in the industry," he added.
For
more information on WinMagic's user-friendly and simple-to-manage encryption
security for Linux environments, visit
https://www.winmagic.com/products/enterprise-server-encryption.