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Require External Drive Encryption

  • October 25, 2017
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We are looking at requiring all external drives to be encrypted. What does everyone use?

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  • Honored Contributor
  • October 26, 2017

We're looking at defining this in a few ways.

Whitelisting drives except ones we supply.

The drives we supply are apricorn encrypted drives that are encrypted with a few pins. Going this method provided us the most painless way of ensuring the drives our staff need to use are indeed encrypted.


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  • Contributor
  • September 10, 2019

@rderewianko Are you able to use the Apricorn drives as a bootable macOS installer? I have been testing it but when the machine reboots the drive locks again and I cannot unlock it fast enough.


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  • Valued Contributor
  • September 10, 2019

I'm not sure I have too much to add here but previous employers have gone so far as to ban external drives except in the most rare cases and use cloud storage and/or enterprise backup solutions instead.