by Curt Franklin

Test Center Tracker: One Giant Leap for Laptop Security

analysis
Sep 4, 20072 mins

High Performance High Security: Mario Apicella has looked under the hood of new drives from Hitachi and Seagate, and he likes what he sees. If you're looking for easy configuration and management, Seagate's the way to go: if top performance and BIOS config screens make your list of favorite things, then Hitachi has a drive for you. Either way, the security of full-disk encryption comes without a noticeable perfo

High Performance High Security: Mario Apicella has looked under the hood of new drives from Hitachi and Seagate, and he likes what he sees. If you’re looking for easy configuration and management, Seagate’s the way to go: if top performance and BIOS config screens make your list of favorite things, then Hitachi has a drive for you. Either way, the security of full-disk encryption comes without a noticeable performance penalty, making the drives serious contenders for “must-have” status in new laptops.

Extreme Phones, Head to Head: Tom Yager is up to his, well, ankles in very small phones with very big capabilities. In part one of his multi-part review, Tom compares the Blackberry 8800 to the Nokia E61i and finds to very different solutions to the problems of enterprise mobile computing. Look for additional hard-working phones to pass under Tom’s microscope in the coming weeks.

Sifting the Network: Signacert’s ETS does several things, and all of them well. It compares your application files to the vendor’s originals, and current versions of files to earlier copies, all in the service of making sure no one has been playing fast and loose with the data stored on your system. Roger Grimes has been running the Signacert through its paces, and he has come back with good news–the ETS works, and works well, though you have to keep a couple of critical limitations in mind if you want to start the cert process in your own network.