From the course: Windows Server 2019: File Services
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How Encrypting File System (EFS) works - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2019: File Services
How Encrypting File System (EFS) works
- [Instructor] When it comes to securing data, one fairly simple way that can be done is by using something called the Encrypting File System, or EFS. Which happens to be built right into Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Now, the actual process of implementing EFS is pretty simple, and I'll show you how that's done in another video. But what I want to do here is I want to talk to you about more the behind the scenes, or the inter workings of how this encryption is actually taking place. So the scenario that I have here is that we have a username John who has a file that he wants it to be secured, or encrypted, so only he has access to it, except for one other user and that user is named Mary and he wanted to let her have access to it as well. So, picture this if you will, you have a file. What are we going to do with it? Well, we have a box, right? We're going to create a box. And we're going to put the file in the box. Now, the file is sitting in a box and we need to secure it…
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