How do BEST protect my data in hard drive?

[draco001]

Hi I am not in IT but I do have to protect the data of my customers which i carry with me all of the time on my laptop. I take precautionary measures such as having the thinkpad x60 with the physical lock, biometric reader and password at the application level. I understand that there is something called EFS that comes with xp. But what concerns me is with these measures in place on my individual laptop (im a one-person show) is this enough security in case my laptop were to get stolen? Is there a way to "lock" the hard drive so that noone - except me can get to the data?

Sorry for the long post but I want to give you all a picture of my situation. The post i read deals with networked/corporate environments and not for one single machine

Regards,

Ray

 

[NoCalAdmin]

the very best thing to do is Encrypt the hard drive. It is not cheap but....

We use PCGaurdian for all our notebooks and desktops.

Tom

 

[draco001]

Hi Tom,

thanks for your reply. I checked out the website and I cant seem to figure out where the encrypition sw is talked about about. All i see are things like locks and cables.

Regards,

Ray