Accessible encryption windows hard/ssd/thumb drives at use and at rest?
Hello, I just dodged a big bullet, which could have had identity-stealing implications if I hadn't got lucky. That being the case I'm looking for accessible encryption methods, free is best, for windows drives, complete drives, hdd/ssd/m.2/USB/sd/if I plug it in it's a drive. I'm needing it to be accessible when the system is booted up in windows, but if the machine is shut down or powered off, basically if the drive is removed it's at-rest encryption so that if someone were to pull it out of a computer (which happened) they would not be able to read anything on it, so I'd be out a drive and not the valuable data that goes with it. Thanks. Dave.
Dave, If you have Bitlocker on the machine you could encrypt any drive. I use it with small USB drives and larger SSD's. It is completely accessible for me. Thanks, Billy -----Original Message----- From: David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 5:00 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessible encryption windows hard/ssd/thumb drives at use and at rest? Hello, I just dodged a big bullet, which could have had identity-stealing implications if I hadn't got lucky. That being the case I'm looking for accessible encryption methods, free is best, for windows drives, complete drives, hdd/ssd/m.2/USB/sd/if I plug it in it's a drive. I'm needing it to be accessible when the system is booted up in windows, but if the machine is shut down or powered off, basically if the drive is removed it's at-rest encryption so that if someone were to pull it out of a computer (which happened) they would not be able to read anything on it, so I'd be out a drive and not the valuable data that goes with it. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
On 12/7/23 17:10, Billy Irwin wrote:
If you have Bitlocker on the machine you could encrypt any drive. I use it with small USB drives and larger SSD's. It is completely accessible for me. In addition, you can configure Group Policy to prevent writing to unencrypted external drives, as is the default in Microsoft's Security Baseline.
Hi. Yeah everywhere I've worked for the last 5 years have ditched their custom USB encryption tools and gone to Bitlocker. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 3:18 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Accessible encryption windows hard/ssd/thumb drives at use and at rest? On 12/7/23 17:10, Billy Irwin wrote:
If you have Bitlocker on the machine you could encrypt any drive. I use it with small USB drives and larger SSD's. It is completely accessible for me. In addition, you can configure Group Policy to prevent writing to unencrypted external drives, as is the default in Microsoft's Security Baseline.
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Hi, An alternative would also be VeraCrypt. https://veracrypt.fr/ Open Source, available on many operating systems, has gone through an code audit. Greetings, Simon Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Organisation, Prozessmanagement, Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems T: +43 5576 7101-1143 | E: simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at | www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2023 23:00 An: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Betreff: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessible encryption windows hard/ssd/thumb drives at use and at rest? Hello, I just dodged a big bullet, which could have had identity-stealing implications if I hadn't got lucky. That being the case I'm looking for accessible encryption methods, free is best, for windows drives, complete drives, hdd/ssd/m.2/USB/sd/if I plug it in it's a drive. I'm needing it to be accessible when the system is booted up in windows, but if the machine is shut down or powered off, basically if the drive is removed it's at-rest encryption so that if someone were to pull it out of a computer (which happened) they would not be able to read anything on it, so I'd be out a drive and not the valuable data that goes with it. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
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