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MoD reinforces guard on 20,000 laptops

Antony Savvas
Tuesday 06 May 2008 05:11

The Ministry of Defence is securing sensitive data on 20,000 RAF, Army and Navy laptops with technology fromBeCrypt .

BeCrypt will provide its Disk Protect Baseline system with authentication tokens for the 20,000 machines and will protect and encrypt data up to "restricted" level.

Disk Protect Baseline is Caps-approved - a security standard used by the armed forces and other government agencies.

The UK armed forces have been at the centre of a number of lost laptop security incidents in the last year.

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