By Will Sturgeon
Published: Monday 20 November 2006
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Paul Jacques
Location
UK
Occupation
Security
Comment
Why would anyone get excited about bitlocker? This type of technology has been around for 8 years; from RSA early and simple (but now defunct) SecurPC to the modern (and over-engineered) Utimaco SGE, it's always been available. Why go through all the trouble of upgrading the PC's OS just to gain a feature that you can by now at 1/3 the price of Vista? I won't even mention that it also avoids the hassle of having to upgrade everything to meet Vista's specifications?
C'mon Accenture, you can do better than that as a business cost justification .
(Ed note. To be fair to Stuart Okin, he not only makes it clear security doesn't present a business case, he also states clearly it is customers who are getting interested in bitlocker, not Accenture.)
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