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Microsoft's BitLocker is an endpoint encryption option.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Microsoft's BitLocker is an endpoint encryption option.
Seclore, Dell Data Protection Suite, and Sophos Central Device Encryption are common alternatives for BitLocker.
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The most common users of BitLocker are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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May 26, 2021
Good encryption tool
BitLocker Drive Encryption is being used to encrypt all laptop's hard drives in the company, keeping our data safe and giving us peace of mind that if [users] lose their [laptops] or get [them] stolen, no data from their disk will be compromised. That said, Bitlocker Drive Encryption does not limit to hard drives only.
- Encrypts data in Hard Drives to improve security
- Easy to manage
- Allows you to encrypt removable media as well
- Encryption is not resumed after being suspended sometimes
- Sometimes it take a long time to encrypt a disk
- Encrypting secondary drives can be tricky
- Data protection
- Removable media encryption
- Simplicity
- Improved risk mitigation
- Data leak prevention
- Increased security
September 30, 2019
The best computer encryption product available today
We are using it across the whole organization. It has been implemented campus-wide, and each department is responsible for deploying/supporting Bitlocker for all its users. We are using it across our organization to fully protect desktops, especially in cases where users are accessing sensitive data. It addresses the business problems of how to protect computers in the best manner possible, in which the computers either store or access sensitive data (this could be either be local or across the network).
- It is fairly easy to use, from both a technician and users point of view. The install itself is pretty simple, and setup of the software is also fairly simple. For users, it is easy to use the software to encrypt the computer.
- It doesn't seem to use a whole lot of system resources when the encryption is enabled on the computer. You shouldn't experience any slowness of the computer, other than the time it takes to first encrypt the computer.
- It serves its main purpose very well, and that is to protect computers from intrusions/data breaches. It is particularly good for protecting computers that are accessing/storing sensitive/confidential data.
- Users need to make sure their computer can support encryption. There is a special TPM chip that is needed to be able to encrypt the computer, but most newer computers today should have this built-in.
- There is some slowness of the computer with the encrypting/decrypting part of the software. This part can also take a long time to complete, depending on the size of the hard disk.
- It is very important that the recovery key is never lost, or else the user may never be able to unlock their drive. Microsoft should look into maybe having a feature which would automatically upload the recovery key to the cloud (in a secure manner).
- 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.
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 commercial product that had to be installed on each machine. That product also was not as easy or intuitive to use as BitLocker, and there were also more issues/problems that occasionally occurred with PGP.
January 24, 2018
Best whole disk encryption for Windows
We use it across our whole organization to encrypt all internal drives on our employees' computers. The main problem it addresses is stolen or forgotten computers. With Bitlocker we don't have to worry about credentials or confidential information getting stolen when a computer is stolen or forgotten somewhere. It also saves us some work as we don't have to reset all the credentials and access of the user when this occurs. In addition, it gives our users the peace of mind if they have to leave their computer in a car or in an hotel room for a day. And finally, with whole drive encryption, you don't have to count on your users to put the sensitive information in the encrypted container.
- Practically no impact on read performance and low impact on write performance compared to others.
- Integrated into Windows/no additional cost
- Easy deployment
- Whole drive encryption
- Uses hardware chip to offer better security
- 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.
- It allowed us to move to whole drive encryption without much effort
- Integrated in Windows Enterprise, so free
- With the right recovery key, it is really easy for IT to recover the data, backup or reset the user's password.
- McAfee drive encryption and Symantec 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 whole drive encryption and because of that you have to count on your users to manage sensitive data correctly and you are bound to have at least one user put sensitive data on a non-encrypted partition.
Self-encrypting disks are expensive and hard to manage but will give you practically no performance [issues]. If performance is what you need at any cost this is probably the solution.
As for Truecrypt which was what we were using before, it is not whole drive encryption and because of that you have to count on your users to manage sensitive data correctly and you are bound to have at least one user put sensitive data on a non-encrypted partition.
Self-encrypting disks are expensive and hard to manage but will give you practically no performance [issues]. If performance is what you need at any cost this is probably the solution.
February 23, 2016
Use BitLocker Drive if you Really Need It
Score 8 out of 10
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I work as a government contractor and there are times where the equipment we use require BitLocker Drive Encryption to be used.
The business problem is the performance of the device that is using BitLocker.
The business problem is the performance of the device that is using BitLocker.
- Definitely encrypts the drive and provides a high level of security
- Protects the drive from any tampering and good luck trying to get back the data after lots of bad attempts.
- Performance hit with non SSD hard drives or up to date equipment
- Slow boot times due to the encryption of the drive.
- You cannot put a price on classified or confidential information leaks.
- truecrypt
There really is no competition with disk encryption at least on a Windows platform. Most Microsoft OS's have bitlocker encryption available to them.