topic Re: FDE encrypts my external hard drive in Endpoint https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Endpoint/FDE-encrypts-my-external-hard-drive/m-p/33325#M830 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Seems like the most logical reason to me.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:35:01 GMT PhoneBoy 2019-02-16T00:35:01Z FDE encrypts my external hard drive https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Endpoint/FDE-encrypts-my-external-hard-drive/m-p/33324#M829 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P></P><P>I faced one strange issue very recently in my FDE machine.</P><P></P><P>I am using FDE without media encryption, due to some reason I connected my external hard drive to backup my files from my machine.</P><P></P><P>Soon after I connected it was not detect so I un-plug it and checked if it detects into some other machine. It was detected as expect but unexpected it was started getting encrypted.</P><P></P><P>Was it happened due to "<STRONG class="" style="color: #000000; background-color: inherit; font-weight: bold; padding: 0pt;"><STRONG class="" style="color: inherit; background-color: inherit; font-weight: bold; padding: 0pt;">Allow encryption of volumes that were detected after the initial installation"&nbsp;</STRONG></STRONG>(or) due to some other reason.</P><P></P><P>Why I am asking this here as be cause I enabled this in my Endpoint server FDE policy..</P><P></P><P>- Arun.R</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:50:40 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Endpoint/FDE-encrypts-my-external-hard-drive/m-p/33324#M829 Arun_R 2019-02-13T17:50:40Z Re: FDE encrypts my external hard drive https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Endpoint/FDE-encrypts-my-external-hard-drive/m-p/33325#M830 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Seems like the most logical reason to me.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:35:01 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Endpoint/FDE-encrypts-my-external-hard-drive/m-p/33325#M830 PhoneBoy 2019-02-16T00:35:01Z Re: FDE encrypts my external hard drive https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Endpoint/FDE-encrypts-my-external-hard-drive/m-p/33326#M831 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The option you mentioned will detect and encrypted drives connected to the motherboard or ESATA ports. If the drive is connected VIA USB then FDE should not try to encrypt it. </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:34:01 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Endpoint/FDE-encrypts-my-external-hard-drive/m-p/33326#M831 Michael_Bybee 2019-02-28T18:34:01Z