CSTL

Just had a meeting with Splunk's VP for EMEA. One of our technicians is rolling it out for a huge retailer in the UK at the minute and it is a fantastic product. You can use the full version for free with a few caveats but I would definately recommend anyone who doesn't want to trawl through endless management / log consoles trying to find things when you can have a search engine akin to how google searches the web for free! You can download it here; Splunk : Download Splunk 3.4.6 It is available for Linux, Mac, Windows (2000-> Vista).

The thread below has some pertinent information to this discussion that you may find helpful! http://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/28055-encryption-school-data-2.html

I must admit that I am not familiar with TrueCrypt but my company deals with a number of Encryption vendors and most of them are able to distinguish between particular device models. ie, you can restrict use to one particular model of USB stick. The big players in the encryption market are (in no particular order); Sophos (formerly utimaco) Symantec Mcaffe (formerly safeboot) PGP Becrypt Checkpoint Lumension

Hi everyone, my name is Michael. I work for an IT security firm (CSTL) based in central london. I am relatively new to the industry although i've spent most my life working with computers and am interested in reading these forums as I work with alot of schools/college/universities to supply IT security.