MoD orders 20,000 licenses to protect laptops - Bapco Journal

MoD orders 20,000 licenses to protect laptops

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08 May, 2008

After the spate of data losses a few months across a variety of public sector agencies the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has invested in 20,000 licenses from BeCrypt to protect its data and encrypt laptops used by the RAF, the Army and the Navy.

The system, known as DISK Protect, will protect data marked up to ‘Restricted’ and will be used on non-DII (Defence Information Infrastructure) laptops.

The need for integration between DII laptops and computers that will be bought in the future was one of factors the MoD required from BeCrypt and Richard Brooks, Director of Sales, EMEA at BeCrypt said, “our encryption solutions support the need to enable mobile working, yet provide proven and verified protection of classified data outside of secured government buildings.”

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