BitLocker Drive Encryption vs. Dell Data Protection | Encryption Enterprise Edition (DDPE)

It can be used if you are already familiar with other Microsoft System Center tools, it will provide integration and it will be easy to use from an Administrator's perspective. However, if you want more detailed information related to the troubleshooting, specific fields, or data, it will not be that granular.

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For file level encryption Credant is not a bad solution. However, they were recently bought by Dell so it remains to be seen what they do with the software.

Incentivized

• It is fairly easy to use, from both a technician and users point of view. The install itself is pretty simple, and setup of the software is also fairly simple. For users, it is easy to use the software to encrypt the computer.
• It doesn't seem to use a whole lot of system resources when the encryption is enabled on the computer. You shouldn't experience any slowness of the computer, other than the time it takes to first encrypt the computer.
• It serves its main purpose very well, and that is to protect computers from intrusions/data breaches. It is particularly good for protecting computers that are accessing/storing sensitive/confidential data.

Incentivized

• Silent installation/uninstallation. It was very easy to deploy and remove the software remotely.
• Transparent to users. Users did not see messages from the software or notice performance issues during encryption.
• File or disk level encryption. Includes the option to do file or full-disk encryption to meet your organization's needs.

Incentivized

• Even if it's the best we tested, I think write performance could be improved. Maybe with dedicated hardware inside the TPM?
• No integration with OS password is a shame as most others have it and it is Microsoft on Microsoft so they can probably do it better then anyone else and safer.
• I wish they would support multiple passwords like FileVault on macOS. If it's a shared computer, you have to give the only password to Bitlocker to both users.

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• The encryption policies require careful configuration to avoid damaging the system
• Encryption does not play nice with Windows OS updates

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Very easy to enable.

Not good nor bad, BitLocker encryption is a symptom of our era, we need to protect ourselves and our data, BitLocker is a tool, as an IT we have to deal with it but it doesn't bring any benefit to my daily operations.

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This was formerly called Symantec PGP encryption. We selected BitLocker since this is what the University has deployed and is currently supporting. BitLocker has many advantages over Symantec PGP, as BitLocker is built-into all Windows computers. With PGP, this was a commercial product that had to be installed on each machine. That product also was not as easy or intuitive to use as BitLocker, and there were also more issues/problems that occasionally occurred with PGP.

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We had terrible experience with Carbon Black. It locked up systems and was very difficult to remove from systems. We chose DDPE as it did what we needed it to do and provided very customizable settings.

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• Protects against data loss and theft, which can be very expensive if PII, SPI, PHI is involved. Fines for this type of loss can be very high, along with the costs of notification, and discovery.
• Cost is included in Windows O/S, without needing additional licensing costs.

Incentivized

• Added security to physical disks and removable media
• Protects with very powerful ATP

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