You work for a small city IT department and you are assistin

You work for a small city IT department and you are assisting a customer secure data on a Windows Vista laptop he is about to take on a business trip. You want to make sure that, if the laptop is stolen, the data will not be compromised. Which security measure do you use that works before the Windows operating system is even loaded and encrypts the entire volume?

A. BitLocker

B. EFS

C. Intrusion detection

D. TPM

Solution

A. BitLocker is new with Windows Vista and continues to be used with Windows 7. It is a low-level mechanism that encrypts an entire volume regardless of who owns the data on the volume and works before the Windows operating system loads.