If the drive doesn’t have hardware self-encryption (or you’re using Win7 or 8.1), BitLocker implements software encryption, which is less efficient, but still enforces password protection.

To paraphrase Fox Mulder, trust no self-encrypting SSD. As of the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption tool that’s built into Pro and Enterprise versions will no longer ...

Windows BitLocker is a drive-encryption feature built into Windows Vista Enterprise, Vista Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 and the still-to-come Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate.

BitLocker is an on-by-default setting in Windows 11 Pro that is meant to encrypt and protect your data. While that sounds all good and dandy, the setting now appears to rob as much as 45 percent ...

Microsoft’s software encryption for SSDs, BitLocker, has been found to be slowing down SSD performance by up to 45% in Windows 11 Pro. BitLocker is enabled automatically when Windows 11 Pro is ...

How to enable BitLocker AES encryption. To review whether you want to change how you encrypt hard drives, run the manage-bde.exe -status command from elevated command prompt.

All PCs that were designed for Windows 10 or Windows 11 support strong data encryption. On devices running any edition of Windows 10 or Windows 11, you can use a feature called device encryption ...

Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Management (MBAM) 2.0 improves on its predecessor to make it simpler to encrypt and protect data.

BitLocker can rely on a trusted platform module (TPM) chip for integrity checking and authentication of hardware components before allowing a BitLocker-encrypted system to boot up or decrypt the data.