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Meyer Electronics Systems just recently had a number of laptops stolen out of their office. On these laptops contained sensitive corporate information regarding patents and company strategies. A…
The correct answer is B. EFS Encryption. EFS (Encrypting File System) is a Windows feature that provides file-system-level encryption for files and folders stored on NTFS volumes. If the laptops had used EFS to encrypt sensitive files, the data would be unreadable without the corresponding private key/certificate…
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Meyer Electronics Systems just recently had a number of laptops stolen out of their office. On these laptops contained sensitive corporate information regarding patents and company strategies. A month after the laptops were stolen, a competing company was found to have just developed products that almost exactly duplicated products that Meyer produces. What could have prevented this information from being stolen from the laptops?
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- ADFS Encryption
- BEFS Encryption
- CSDW Encryption
- DIPS Encryption
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(20 responses)- B95% (19)
- C5% (1)
Explanation
EFS (Encrypting File System) is a Windows feature that provides file-system-level encryption for files and folders stored on NTFS volumes. If the laptops had used EFS to encrypt sensitive files, the data would be unreadable without the corresponding private key/certificate - even if the physical drive is removed and placed in another machine. DFS is Distributed File System (a namespace technology, not encryption). SDW and IPS Encryption are not standard encryption technologies. EFS is the correct Windows-native solution for protecting data at rest on stolen laptops.
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