Decent Encryption solution but has it's issues
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
DDPE has been rebranded as DDS (Dell Data Security) but it offers all the same things. We now use it for ATP as it comes bundled with Cylance and also to manage disk encryption. We use BitLocker to encrypt local disks but manage this with DDS. In the past we used DDPE encryption for our systems but that caused a lot of issues with Windows updates.
Pros
- Easy to manage security policies for ATP and Encryption
- Comes with Cylance ATP
- Very powerful and flexible encryption tools
Cons
- The encryption policies require careful configuration to avoid damaging the system
- Encryption does not play nice with Windows OS updates
Likelihood to Recommend
DDPE is great if you want very specific data encrypted and managed. It's flexible in terms of configuration but also can be quite a pain to get configured right. It requires a lot of exclusions and does not play nice with Windows Updates. Usually the client needs to be updated before updates on Windows can be installed and sometimes a new version is no where in sight. The ATP is great but also requires extensive configurations as otherwise it has way too many false positives.
