Using as encryption frontier

In an organisation where removable media encryption is widely used, SheepDip Workstations can act frontier posts for encryption domains. Here are some details of how this can work:

• The sheep-dips can be given more permissive removable media encryption policies than other computers in the same encryption domain.
• A user can then transfer files from a visitor's unencrypted flash drive to encrypted removable media at a SheepDip Workstation.
• The visitor's files will automatically be scanned for viruses by the sheep-dip during copying - an important precaution.
• The same process can be used in reverse when giving files to visitors.
• A SheepDip Workstation can be given keys for encryption domains other than its own domain.
• It can then act as a point at which files can be transferred between removable media from different domains.

For in-house file transfers between encryption domains it is also possible to use a Network SheepDip system. Such a system eliminates the need for removable media, but still provides the enhanced virus checking that SheepDip Workstations offer.

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