Re: Securing data in Notebook

Yes if the user exported/deleted their EFS private - but that does not
make for a quite friendly, convenient user experience, and hence that
soon leads to their not exporting/deleting again after they had imported
in order to get some work done. Once it is in the profile one had the
initial leg-hold, and yes, in the most simple case there is ability to
leverage the local SAM due to a mobile user not using domain account.


"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How so?? Are you assuming here that the local user password can be
cracked? I have never heard of a way if the user exported/deleted their
EFS private key and used cipher /w after that. --- Steve


"Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNoSpam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you secured the data only with EFS (hence cheap and convenient)
then I would be able to get the info if I had the laptop, time, skill to
do
so, and sufficient determination. This would be so even if for example
the laptop required smartcard login.


"Simba" <wisandanu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am working in Goverment office. We need to secure data in our
notebooks, if the notebooks stolen, we want nobody can read the
information in the HDD.

From several website, i found that there are two solutions for this:
1. Harddisk Password
2. Encryption

FYI, all notebooks are running on Windows XP Pro SP2, standalone (not
member of any domain).

I need the good solution for securing data for our notebooks and
offcourse which is also easy to maintain by system support.

Rian Wisandanu
MCSE







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