Microsoft BitLocker Review

A simple tool, but very useful to secure data

Valuable Features:

1. Very easy to use. It can be done in a few steps in a wizard. 2. It is a free product that comes with Microsoft Windows. 3. It encrypts your whole drive, no matter if it is external or internal. 4. Recovery files can either be saved to a drive or printed to a paper.

Room for Improvement:

1. It is available for Microsoft Windows Ultimate and Enterprise editions only. 2. It takes a long time to encrypt and decrypt a drive.Bitlocker is a very user friendly tool, which can encrypt our data within a few clicks. There is no hard work to do. Because of that, I prefer to use it. It has no big steps and is also a very light tool. A major thing is that it is a free tool that comes with Microsoft Windows.

Other Advice:

As a student, I use flash drives frequently. Sometimes my colleagues borrow my flash and could potentially delete my important data. By encrypting my flash drive, I can avoid it. However, there are still a few problems with it. It comes only with the windows Ultimate and Enterprise editions, so the users who use other editions cannot use this tool. It takes a long time to encrypt a drive.
**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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author avatarit_user4401 (Developer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees)
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Bitlocker ties user's hard disk to his laptop and it encrypts the data on the disk using software AES encryption on the fly. If he has a TPM, this is used for key storage. However he can enable it without a TPM and use a USB flash drive to effectively 'unlock' the unit.

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The product is stable.
The most valuable feature is the TPM (Trusted Platform Module), which makes the PC security stronger because somebody who is not from the team cannot access the PC without the decryption PIN.
It is easy to use. It is usually easy to recover someone's privacy. The manageability is much easier than McAfee. I think that Microsoft is a leader in this area. We are in the Microsoft school so our judgment of McAfee will be a little bit unfair as we recommend Microsoft all the time because of the easy manageability and support. I think that McAfee is designed for a different customer and every time we open a ticket with their support, it takes a very, very long time. The main difference is just the manageability and support. In terms of the solution itself or the functionality, I know that McAfee is very strong, but manageability and support, for us, is much more important. It's strengthens the solution for us.
The most valuable feature is the simplicity and integration with the Microsoft Clouds platform.
There's a lot of manageability within the solution. This is very helpful.
We have not seen any bugs or glitches, so the stability is good.
The solution works the way it's supposed to - stability and scalability are fine.
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