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    BitLocker

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's BitLocker is an endpoint encryption option.

    $100

    One Time Fee

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    BitLocker
    Editions & Modules
    Windows 10 Home
    $100.00
    One Time Fee
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    BitLocker
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    BitLocker
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose BitLocker
    BitLocker Drive Encryption is much more reliable. We used McAfee drive encryption prior to moving to BitLocker Drive Encryption. While McAfee was useful, it's required pre-boot environment always fell out of sync with AD passwords, causing users difficulty to sign into their …
    Incentivized
    Chose BitLocker
    BitLocker Drive Encryption solution offering is cheaper than the one that McAfee offers, it will help you with specific business concerns like "how many encrypted assets do I have?" it's easy to maintain, easy to deploy, and easy to track. It's best suited for companies that …
    Incentivized
    Chose BitLocker
    This was formerly called Symantec PGP encryption. We selected BitLocker since this is what the University has deployed and is currently supporting. BitLocker has many advantages over Symantec PGP, as BitLocker is built-into all Windows computers. With PGP, this was a …
    Incentivized
    Chose BitLocker
    I can't think of any alternative that I know of.
    Incentivized
    Chose BitLocker
    Previously used TrueCrypt until vulnerabilities were discovered. Overall performance improved when going from TrueCrypt to BitLocker.
    Incentivized
    Chose BitLocker
    Most other whole drive encryption tools are really not that easy to manage and come with big performance when compared to Bitlocker. Also, a lot of them don't use TPM which in my opinion gives you better protection.

    As for Truecrypt which was what we were using before, it is not …
    Incentivized
    Chose BitLocker
    There is not much alternative to Bitlocker, you may want to try self-encrypted disk, but for a business perspective, it is not as easy as Bitlocker to manage. Self-encrypted may be faster, but recovering data for a system administrator is a disaster.

    There was more alternative …
    Incentivized
    Chose BitLocker
    There really is no competition with disk encryption at least on a Windows platform. Most Microsoft OS's have bitlocker encryption available to them.
    Incentivized
    Chose BitLocker
    BitLocker is a lot easier to enable. It's a simple flick of the switch inside Intune.
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    BitLocker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)