computing/smb-security/topics/encryption

The root of encryption goes back centuries, long before anyone even considered the notion of a “thinking machine.”

BitLocker is a security feature included in Windows Vista that can prevent your data from falling into the wrong hands by encrypting it, even if your computer is lost or stolen.

While BitLocker is a great way of preventing unauthorized people from accessing your data, it can also prevent your users from accessing it. Should a user lose his or her recovery password, any data that you encrypted with BitLocker will become permanently inaccessible. This article explains some steps you can take to stop that happening.

This article explains how to enable BitLocker on a computer without a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip.

Should you be encrypting your data? What data should you be encrypting? How should you be encrypting it? This article will highlight some points which you should consider when planning your encryption strategy.