asked on Windows Domain with Windows 7 Professional desktops - enforcing USB drive encryption by default
All - Windows domain with Windows 7 clients and trying to determine the way forward in enforcing USB drive encryption by default across our network, unfortunately we don't have Bit-Locker so will need to look at other solutions - would welcome any advice/tips - thanks.
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David Newman
you can't enforce what what you don't have
ASKER
Thanks David - any recommended third party solutions?
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We have some kind of a solution.
We bought Sandisk USB thumbdrives for anyone (they are cheap). Those come with a free encryption software. To enforce its usage, we deployed a scheduled task that sends e-mails to the admins and shows warning popups, whenever unencrypted writes to disk take place. This was made possible by windows 8 auditing, which can be used to audit removable devices in general.
Edit: no, windows 7 does not have this, but I am writing because win10 upgrades are free for win7 pro and it will be made available this summer.
We bought Sandisk USB thumbdrives for anyone (they are cheap). Those come with a free encryption software. To enforce its usage, we deployed a scheduled task that sends e-mails to the admins and shows warning popups, whenever unencrypted writes to disk take place. This was made possible by windows 8 auditing, which can be used to audit removable devices in general.
Edit: no, windows 7 does not have this, but I am writing because win10 upgrades are free for win7 pro and it will be made available this summer.
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thanks guys