BitLocker Drive Encryption

BitLocker Drive Encryption

BitLocker Drive Encryption

45 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BitLocker	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's BitLocker is an endpoint encryption option.	$100 One Time Fee

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BitLocker Drive Encryption

Editions & Modules

Windows 10 Home: $100.00
One Time Fee

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BitLocker
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	BitLocker Drive Encryption
Considered Both Products	BitLocker Verified User Technician Chose BitLocker Drive Encryption BitLocker is a lot easier to enable. It's a simple flick of the switch inside Intune. Helpful? Justin Graves HIPAA Security Officer Chose BitLocker Drive Encryption BitLocker Drive Encryption is much more reliable. We used McAfee drive encryption prior to moving to BitLocker Drive Encryption. While McAfee was useful, it's required pre-boot environment always fell out of sync with AD passwords, causing users difficulty to sign into their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose BitLocker Drive Encryption BitLocker Drive Encryption solution offering is cheaper than the one that McAfee offers, it will help you with specific business concerns like "how many encrypted assets do I have?" it's easy to maintain, easy to deploy, and easy to track. It's best suited for companies that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Supervisor Chose BitLocker Drive Encryption This was formerly called Symantec PGP encryption. We selected BitLocker since this is what the University has deployed and is currently supporting. BitLocker has many advantages over Symantec PGP, as BitLocker is built-into all Windows computers. With PGP, this was a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose BitLocker Drive Encryption I can't think of any alternative that I know of. Incentivized Helpful? RR Richard Russell Principal Network Administrator Chose BitLocker Drive Encryption Previously used TrueCrypt until vulnerabilities were discovered. Overall performance improved when going from TrueCrypt to BitLocker. Incentivized Helpful? Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland System Administrator Chose BitLocker Drive Encryption Most other whole drive encryption tools are really not that easy to manage and come with big performance when compared to Bitlocker. Also, a lot of them don't use TPM which in my opinion gives you better protection. As for Truecrypt which was what we were using before, it is not … Incentivized Helpful? Tommy Boucher IT Director Chose BitLocker Drive Encryption There is not much alternative to Bitlocker, you may want to try self-encrypted disk, but for a business perspective, it is not as easy as Bitlocker to manage. Self-encrypted may be faster, but recovering data for a system administrator is a disaster. There was more alternative … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose BitLocker Drive Encryption There really is no competition with disk encryption at least on a Windows platform. Most Microsoft OS's have bitlocker encryption available to them. Helpful?

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User Ratings
	BitLocker Drive Encryption
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (11 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BitLocker Drive Encryption
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft It is well suited especially for users that access or store sensitive/confidential data on their computers. In the case of where users are accessing confidential data over the network, it is highly recommended to use Bitlocker to encrypt the computer. In the case where users are storing confidential data on their computer, it should be a requirement that BitLocker is used/enabled. It would be less appropriate if someone was using a computer and they were not dealing with any sensitive data, or in cases where the computer is used for recreational purposes (browsing the web, playing games, etc). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Encrypts the entire drive and provides a high level of security. In an Active Directory environment, you can set up BitLocker to automatically save keys to AD. As part of Windows, no additional licensing costs. Set up and configuration is relatively easy. Uses TPM module to increase security. Incentivized RR Richard Russell Principal Network Administrator Read full review
Cons	Microsoft Even if it's the best we tested, I think write performance could be improved. Maybe with dedicated hardware inside the TPM? No integration with OS password is a shame as most others have it and it is Microsoft on Microsoft so they can probably do it better then anyone else and safer. I wish they would support multiple passwords like FileVault on macOS. If it's a shared computer, you have to give the only password to Bitlocker to both users. Incentivized Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland System Administrator Read full review
Usability	Microsoft Very easy to enable. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft Not good nor bad, BitLocker encryption is a symptom of our era, we need to protect ourselves and our data, BitLocker is a tool, as an IT we have to deal with it but it doesn't bring any benefit to my daily operations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft BitLocker Drive Encryption solution offering is cheaper than the one that McAfee offers, it will help you with specific business concerns like "how many encrypted assets do I have?" it's easy to maintain, easy to deploy, and easy to track. It's best suited for companies that are not trying to go far away on the disk encryption matter Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft The biggest positive impact it has on ROI is the cost savings, since there is no cost to using the software. Since it's widely available to anyone with a Windows computer, and the program is built into the operating system, there is no need to really install anything. This helps to save time of the IT department having to do installs, and also keep track of licensing, etc. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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