Disk Protect is a full disk encryption product, which means it encrypts the entire hard drive; including the operating system, applications and data. This means when the machine is off, the data is protected and it is virtually impossible to break into the data without knowing the username and password. When the machine is powered up, the data is fully accessible and encryption works transparently in the background when files are read and updated.

The alternative to FDE is usually file or folder encryption products that allow specific files or folders to be encrypted on demand. Users have to manually select which files, folders or locations they want to be encrypted. However this can leave security account information or sensitive files unprotected and may make it easier for application based attacks.

We encourage estates of more than 10 licenses to use BEM, to ensure easy and efficient management.The BEM console centralises the management of Becrypt products, supporting remote user management, policy management and role based devolved management capabilities so that everything can be managed and controlled from one place.

Yes you can. Please contact Becrypt Support Team for further information and guidance on this.

Disk Protect only supports hardware RAID. It does not support software RAID.

Commands such as ‘FixMBR’ must never be used on an encrypted drive. If used, the machine will have to be reformatted or rebuilt.

Carrying out an Active Directory Sync operation will synchronise the Organisational Unit structure in BEM with that in the Active Directory, updating BEM to reflect any changes in Active Directory.

In order to re-register with the BEM console, please follow these steps:

1. Uninstall Disk Protect from the client machine
2. Hard delete this machine from the BEM console by recycling it, and then pressing the key combination ‘CTRL, ‘SHIFT’, ‘DEL’ from the recycled container to permanently remove it from the database
3. Delete all the Disk Protect registry keys from the client machine
4. Remove the client computer from the domain
5. Give the client machine a new computer name
6. Re-join the client machine to the domain
7. Apply the correct group policy to the client machine to enable BEM server communication
8. Install Disk Protect on the client machine again

This will re-register the machine to the BEM server.