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Protect Your Data in Transit

There are a variety of methods available for securing your data while you are moving around with your computer. These range from the simple, such as password protecting your machine, to more complicated method, such as full disk encryption. If you need to travel with your computer and it has data on it that could be considered sensitive or confidential, please contact the IT Service Desk (Help Desk) at 646-2999 and select from the options provided, send electronic mail to help@dartmouth.edu, or call your department's IT support office for more information on the options that are available to protect that data.

You also need to be concerned about protecting sensitive or confidential information when you are sending it from one computer to another (e.g., via e-mail or to a server). The methods below describe options available for securing data sent from one machine to another.

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09/25/08

Last Updated: 9/26/08