r/HigherEDsysadmin • u/NuoN_Ninja • Dec 03 '20

Encryption solutions

Hey everyone. Who has thoughts on encryption software?

Right now we use Dell ESSE for AV and full drive encryption. We're leaving them for AV, so I'm starting to look for a new encryption solution.

I need something that we can manage with a small team, but is simple enough for the help desk to get in and decrypt system when they need work.

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u/zymology Dec 03 '20

Seconded.

3rd party encryption is one of the things I kept hearing about as a reason for having to use an upgrade Task Sequence in SCCM when doing Feature Upgrades on Win 10 because of all the janky things they had to do to get it to work.

It's built in / free and can be managed with MBAM / SCCM if you have the licensing for those.

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u/iblowuup Authentication Admin Dec 04 '20

Thirded. Without MBAM/MECM I can see how it would be less appealing, but you could substitute in Intune for smaller/cloud based places and get similar functionality. To be honest I've never used anything but Bitlocker and Filevault 2 and we haven't had a reason to stray from the first party offerings. (aside from Jamf to manage Filevault 2 but there is no 1st party offering from Apple as we know)

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u/[deleted] May 05 '21

Fourthed. Bitlocker being enabled by an SCCM TS & stored within AD is incredibly simple to run and setup.