PC Encryption
Encryption will provide a higher level of security for the data that is in your care. Please be aware that encryption does, however, add another level of sophistication to recovering your data should a hard drive fail, or the data become corrupted. The best practice method for recovery in this case is to pull the information from a reliable and secure backup. As you are responsible for backing up and securing your data, we strongly promote and encourage you to diligently back up your data in a timely manner using options like One-Drive that is in a secure location and provides redundancy and fault tolerance, should a hardware failure occur. You could also consider a local backup where a secondary internal drive could be installed internally to your computer and used to backup data. Please contact IT to discuss the options and let us know if you need assistance or have any questions or concerns.
NOTE: If you are not prompted to encrypt your computer, please either log out and log back in OR reboot your computer(s) so that the proper policies are applied. This can take some time. If after 24 hours you are still not seeing an encryption prompt, please reply to your ticket and UWIT will reach out to help.
If you deferred encryption and wish to get the prompt back, log out/in or reboot and the prompt should reappear.
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Non-Silent Install User Steps for Encryption (TPM chip)............................................................... 1
Non-Silent Install User Steps for Encryption (non-TPM chip)........................................................ 7
