PGP Rolls Out Managed Security Services Targeting Laptops

By Marc Handelman on October 22nd, 2008

News from The Register, yesterday, of a new, managed FDE security service (Full Disk Encryption [FDE]) from PGP, where lost, stolen or misplaced laptops can be disabled remotely. A short excerpt from the post appears after the break.

From the post: “PGP is aiming to exploit concern about the security implications of lost laptops with the launch via its resellers of a managed service for the administration of whole disk encryption.

Partners ANI Direct, Aurora Enterprises in the US and Gradian Systems in the UK will be the first to offer a pay-as-you-go laptop security service. PGP Managed Service Provider Network is aimed at smaller firms in sectors such as legal services and accountancy that need to secure their laptops, but would rather assign the task to a third party than handle the job in-house, PGP marketing manager Jamie Cowper said.”…