A large company is concerned with the loss of intellectual p

A large company is concerned with the loss of intellectual property. It also needs the abillity to encrypt files and hard drives, as well as key management for encyrption. There are two recommended solutions: PGP and Bitlocker. Which would you recommend for the company\'s requirements and why? Please support your answer with facts.

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I\'m testing a MS Surface Pro 3 with Win 8.1 64bit and it has Bitlocker installed although not turned on yet. We use Symantec\'s PGP Encryption Desktop 12 and it installed but when trying to start to encrypt; it states that :this disk does not appear to have a valid volume. PGP Whole Eisk can only encrypt disks with at least one valid volume.

Disk Manager shows the Windows (C:) to be Bitlocker encrypted.

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