In mid-2014, to the chagrin of many, TrueCrypt development was discontinued. Considering its popularity and the general response by the public, it was no surprise that within a few months a group of developers have revived this open source stalwart by forking the code into CipherShed.
​TrueCrypt's staying power has been proven again and again. ZDNet recently put out a great article, '10 Best Privacy Tools for Staying Secure Online', where TrueCrypt technology still comes in the #3 spot. Additionally, recent revelations from Edward Snowden have shown that the National Security Administration had TrueCrypt on their 'most wanted' list for decryption as recently as 2012.
Some of the other 'most wanted' list members have been cracked by the NSA in the last couple years, including Tor, but it is unclear what progress the they have made on cracking TrueCrypt, if any, since 2012. I'd wager that anything the NSA struggles to crack is certainly good enough for most consumers and businesses!
For businesses that need to enforce disk encryption, using TrueCrypt or other technology, Gears provides simple and robust detection and reporting. An admin can install Gears on owned device, and/or ask BYOD owners to run Gears on-demand. Within a few minutes, the dashboard will show which devices are and aren't encrypted. The admin can even gain awareness if the user pauses or suspends encryption, or has additional partitions without encryption.
This encryption detection ability in Gears is included in even the free accounts (up to 25 devices) and supports the most popular encryption products. Coming in early 2015, Gears will add support for generic encryption detection when the software used is unknown!
