Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Incidental Encryption for the Certified Legal Nurse Consultant
I have been asked whether CLNC consultants should encrypt the data on the computers they use for their legal nurse consulting businesses. My previous answer, if you remember, was an unequivocal “it depends.” It depends on your needs and on the sophistication of your computer skills. To that end, I suggested using some version of Microsoft’s “Bitlocker” program depending upon the operating system you may be running (Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows 7). If you were running XP or lesser versions of Vista, I suggested an add-on program called TrueCrypt, a free download, that will allow you to encrypt your entire hard drive or a portion thereof. These processes still work.
