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We are an enterprise company and we are in the process on rolling out Windows 10 on Surface Pro 3 and 4, as well as laptops. &nbsp;We currently use Symantec PGP on our laptops and it has worked well.<br />
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We wanted to reach out to our fellow IT brethren and get your professional thoughts and experiences with both products and what you feel is the best.
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We are an enterprise company and we are in the process on rolling out Windows 10 on Surface Pro 3 and 4, as well as laptops.  We currently use Symantec PGP on our laptops and it has worked well.

We wanted to reach out to our fellow IT brethren and get your professional thoughts and experiences with both products and what you feel is the best.

Hard Drive Encryption - Symantec PGP or Microsoft Bitlocker?

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read it. In an encryption scheme, the intended communication information or message, referred to as plaintext, is encrypted using an encryption algorithm, generating ciphertext that can only be read if decrypted. For technical reasons, an encryption scheme usually uses a pseudo-random encryption key generated by an algorithm. An authorized recipient can easily decrypt the message with the key provided by the originator to recipients, but not to unauthorized interceptors.

Encryption

Windows 10 is a personal computer operating system featuring the "universal application architecture" (UAP); apps can be designed to run across multiple devices with nearly identical code, including PCs, tablets, smartphones, embedded systems, Xbox One, Surface Hub and HoloLens. Windows 10 also includes a virtual desktop system, a window and desktop management feature called Task View, the Microsoft Edge web browser, support for fingerprint and face recognition login, voice-based search (Cortana), new security features for enterprise environments, and DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.0 to improve the operating system's graphics capabilities for games.