Workstation hard drive encryption: Overdue or overkill?
Brien Posey, Contributor
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Although almost everyone agrees that data security is important in today's age of high-profile breaches and theft, many have debated the need to encrypt workstation hard drives. In my own experience as an IT professional, encrypting workstation hard drives can do more harm than good. At best, the practice gives administrators a false sense of security. At worst, workstation hard drive encryption can lead to data loss. In this article, let's take a look at what kind of security an encrypted hard drive actually provides.
In the vast majority of the companies that I have worked or done consulting jobs for, storing data on the hard drives of workstations (client desktop PCs) was a forbidden practice, both for security reasons and because enterprise workstations were almost never backed up. If an enterprise policy prevents valuable data from being stored on workstation hard drives, a hard drive encryption initiative may be a waste.
Other organizations may feel that encrypting wor...
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