topic Re: Files encryption with FDE in Endpoint

Files encryption with FDE

AdaCoul — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:17:23 GMT

Hi everyone.

Please, could someone help with me this question that a customer asked to me :

With Full Disk encryption, is it possible to encrypt a file so that the same file cannot be open if it is copied on another computer ?

Thanks in advanced !!!

Re: Files encryption with FDE

FredrikG — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 09:03:24 GMT

Hi,

The answer is no.

FDE encrypts the disk on sector level and thus FDE is unaware of individual files. In practice this means that the content of the files are decrypted prior to being copied to other media or shares.

Re: Files encryption with FDE

AdaCoul — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 09:26:34 GMT

Hi FredrikG,

Many thanks for your response.