Staff, let's talk in this article about "bitlocker to go ", which is the ability to encrypt a removable disk, such as a Pen-drive for example. What is very helpful with respect to information security, it is very easy to lose a pendrive due to its small size, not to mention how this object is susceptible to theft. The feature can be enabled on any computer running Standalone Windows 7 and in an environment in the area where we have workstations running Windows 7 and servers with Windows Server 2008 R2 (configuration through group policies … but that already is another article! RSS) with BitLocker enabled on a removable disk, the same can only be accessed through the typing a password, which is registered at the time of encryption configuration.
To enable the appeal, is quite simple … then right-click on the device and enable the feature, as shown in the image below:
We have the option of configuring access protection through a password or smart card with a … show the example using a password. Register and confirm the same …. click Next
If you forget your password, we can save a recovery password in a file, both when printing the same …
After you choose the method for recovery password storage shall be instituted device encryption. wait until the end of encryption, if you want to modify, copy, or move the removable disk files, click the PAUSE button to freeze the encryption process … so you do not run the risk of damaging the files …
After the device encryption will always be required typing the password to permit access to information …
We can see clearly the device encrypted in "My Computer".
In the case of lost password, we have the option of using a recovery password (same saving and there in the previous steps or …) …
… just digit password and follow the wizard, it will stick so that we can change our access password again.
Using the removable device on other machines, we have access to the files of the Pen-drive via "bitlocker to go reader", which is already contained in encrypted device; that makes it read-only access to data …
As we can see, this is a hands-on resource, fast and very useful!
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