We now have a secure drive to store customer data! Note the warnings (if any), and click next! You need to save a recovery key – save this to a file/usb/cd and keep in secure/safe storage, in a different locaiton to your laptop!
#BITLOCKER VS TRUECRYPT PASSWORD#
In this case, select the drive you are going to resize.īack in control panel, search for BitLockerĮxpand the details, and click the “shield” iconĬheck “use password” and enter a SECURE PASSWORD !! If you dont have some unallocated drive space already, we need to create some. Open control panel, search for disk, then click “create and format hard disk partitions” To get to it, you will need to downlaod the zip at the top of this article, unpack the contents, then rename the file giving it an "exe" extension to run. As the main site for TrueCrypt no longer allows downloads of the last secure version, I have attached it to this article. For a good solid discussion on this, check out Gibson research. It is understood that the source of TrueCrypt will be branched and deveoped onward. What is meant by this is that it is no longer activly maintained, therefore as there will be no more patches or security fixes/updates, it is not as up to date as it might have been. There has been concern voiced that TrueCrypt is "no longer secure" - technically, it is no longer secure in the same way that for the most part Windows XP is no longer secure. I use both BitLocker and TrueCrypt on a regular basis and dont find any speed issues for data access. You can mount and unmount the drive-file at will, and a great benefit is that it is easily transportable. Rather than operate on a disk level, it creates a secure file container, that gets "mounted" to the system using a device driver, and then appears to the system as a new hard-drive. TrueCrypt works in a different way to BitLocker. It turns out that BitLocker is only available on certain versions of Windows-8, so for those it does not work on, I have included instructions for using a version of TrueCrypt that was available before it was unfortunetly, abruptly with-drawn from the market. For this reason I leave my SQL-server for example in "manual start" mode, and turn it on from a batch file on delayed start after I unlock my secure drive. When using an encryted drive, you also need to take into account that until you unlock/mount the drive, applications that need access tot he data on the drive might report errors. when creating / restoring databases you need to set the path carefully. One of the things you need to be watchful of is default save locations for things like MS SQL data.
#BITLOCKER VS TRUECRYPT WINDOWS 7#
You can also do this in Windows 7 - the routine is more or less the same. This quick run-through assumes you are using Windows 8.
#BITLOCKER VS TRUECRYPT CODE#
this is a quick run-through of using BitLocker in Windows 8 to create a secure drive where you can save your code and customer data to, ensuring you keep your rear end covered in case of machine loss! if your machine gets stolen or lost, and the data on it is not locked down, guess who's going to get the blame. Most organisations consider the code/work their employees produce property of some sort. Have a look at my artice on data privacy/data proteciton for developers for more information. In a lot of countries, keeping personal data secure is the law. This is not a coding article, but is important, very important for developers to do - if you dont lock down your data at the moment, then take ten minutes to do it now - this quick article will show you how, and its really important!
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