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Turning on and using full-disk encryption

Turning on and using full-disk encryption

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Turning on and using full-disk encryption

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- [Instructor] All the major operating systems offer features that provide full-disk encryption. Full-disk encryption takes the contents of your hard drive and protects them cryptographically, only allowing access to the data once a password is provided. This helps to protect data in case your computer is lost or stolen. Without your password it becomes very difficult, or nearly impossible, for someone to access information on the disk. There are other ways to protect data on a disk, as we saw in a previous episode, but full-disk encryption is convenient and it helps to guarantee that everything on a disk, rather than just specific files, is protected from prying eyes. On Windows there are two features that allow full-disk encryption if your device supports it and if the license of Windows you have offers the capability. These are called Windows device encryption and BitLocker. Windows device encryption will encrypt your disk and store a backup of your encryption key with Microsoft…

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