Security

Jason Zandri provides a ‘from the field’ overview of the features and requirements of BitLocker To Go and its abilities to control how removable storage devices are secured.

Using BitLocker Drive Encryption is one of the best ways to protect portable systems such as laptops from loss of data and information when the laptops themselves are lost or stolen. In this article, Jason Zandri provides an overview of the functionality and security features of this tool as it applies to Windows 7.

A comparative overview of BitLocker and Encrypting File System (EFS) in Windows 7 and how they can be leveraged to improve the security of your data.

In many enterprises, the organization policy is to add end users to the local Administrators group on their assigned PC; often to allow legacy applications which require administrative privileges to run correctly. However, there’s a great risk in setting the end users as local administrators… information security. In this article MVP Daniel Petri presents a few better and more secure options.

The Windows 7 Release Candidate download page on TechNet suddenly showed up online and available for review for a short while a few days before it was supposed to officially show up. Here’s a summary of what was published…

Windows 7 is the next generation of operating system due from Microsoft and it is now set for a planned release in the final quarter of 2009 which would be just a bit shy of the three years since the release of Windows Vista. This segment of the article series is an overview of BitLocker…

Windows 7 is the next generation of operating system due from Microsoft and it is still set for a planned release for early 2010 which would be three years after the release of Windows Vista. This article is a walkthrough of the steps for enabling BitLocker on your Windows 7 system. [NOTES FROM THE FIELD]…

Windows 7 is the next generation of operating system due from Microsoft and it is now set for a planned release in the final quarter of 2009 which would be just a bit shy of the three years since the release of Windows Vista. This article series is an overview of BitLocker and Encrypting File…