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Overview of BitLocker Device Encryption in Windows 10: This topic for the IT professional provides an overview of the ways that BitLocker Device Encryption can help protect data on devices running Windows 10. BitLocker frequently asked questions (FAQ). As the name suggests, the tool employs the Windows embedded encryption technology to lock down the drive for enhanced security. DOWNLOAD BitLocker Drive Lock Utility 1.0 for Windows.

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MS has made a business decision that providing disk encryption to home users does not make 'business sense'. Potentially they have to pay someone to use the encryption, to 'license' it. If you want bitlocker now, you have to pay to upgrade to at least Pro.
There are 3rd party tools you can buy or use free (for personal use)
Here are links to a few articles
https://www.howtogeek.com/234826/how-to-enable-..
https://www.lifewire.com/free-full-disk-encrypt..
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/..
(this is a little bit older article but Bruce is a well respected security expert).
(google is your friend for more articles, look for ones that are at most year or so old for best current information. Computer security is a quickly changing environment. Up to very recently WPA2 was considered secure, not is it known to be hackable with some effort)
If you want bitlocker included with Windows Home seend feedback to MS using the Feedback Hub
SEND FEEDBACK TO MS DEVELOPERS
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for..
This link above is to a “Forum Article” describing the various ways you can now submit “Feedback” directly to MS Developers and Managers.
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Applies to

Windows 10

This topic explains how BitLocker Device Encryption can help protect data on devices running Windows 10.For an architectural overview about how BitLocker Device Encryption works with Secure Boot, see Secure boot and BitLocker Device Encryption overview.For a general overview and list of topics about BitLocker, see BitLocker.

When users travel, their organization’s confidential data goes with them. Wherever confidential data is stored, it must be protected against unauthorized access. Windows has a long history of providing at-rest data-protection solutions that guard against nefarious attackers, beginning with the Encrypting File System in the Windows 2000 operating system. More recently, BitLocker has provided encryption for full drives and portable drives. Windows consistently improves data protection by improving existing options and by providing new strategies.

Table 2 lists specific data-protection concerns and how they are addressed in Windows 10 and Windows 7.

Table 2. Data Protection in Windows 10 and Windows 7

Windows 7	Windows 10
When BitLocker is used with a PIN to protect startup, PCs such as kiosks cannot be restarted remotely.	Modern Windows devices are increasingly protected with BitLocker Device Encryption out of the box and support SSO to seamlessly protect the BitLocker encryption keys from cold boot attacks. Network Unlock allows PCs to start automatically when connected to the internal network.
When BitLocker is enabled, the provisioning process can take several hours.	BitLocker pre-provisioning, encrypting hard drives, and Used Space Only encryption allow administrators to enable BitLocker quickly on new computers.
There is no support for using BitLocker with self-encrypting drives (SEDs).	BitLocker supports offloading encryption to encrypted hard drives.
Administrators have to use separate tools to manage encrypted hard drives.	BitLocker supports encrypted hard drives with onboard encryption hardware built in, which allows administrators to use the familiar BitLocker administrative tools to manage them.
Encrypting a new flash drive can take more than 20 minutes.	Used Space Only encryption in BitLocker To Go allows users to encrypt removable data drives in seconds.
BitLocker could require users to enter a recovery key when system configuration changes occur.	BitLocker requires the user to enter a recovery key only when disk corruption occurs or when he or she loses the PIN or password.
Users need to enter a PIN to start the PC, and then their password to sign in to Windows.	Modern Windows devices are increasingly protected with BitLocker Device Encryption out of the box and support SSO to help protect the BitLocker encryption keys from cold boot attacks.

Prepare for drive and file encryption

The best type of security measures are transparent to the user during implementation and use. Every time there is a possible delay or difficulty because of a security feature, there is strong likelihood that users will try to bypass security. This situation is especially true for data protection, and that’s a scenario that organizations need to avoid.Whether you’re planning to encrypt entire volumes, removable devices, or individual files, Windows 10 meets your needs by providing streamlined, usable solutions. In fact, you can take several steps in advance to prepare for data encryption and make the deployment quick and smooth.

TPM pre-provisioning

In Windows 7, preparing the TPM for use offered a couple of challenges:

You can turn on the TPM in the BIOS, which requires someone to either go into the BIOS settings to turn it on or to install a driver to turn it on from within Windows.
When you enable the TPM, it may require one or more restarts.

Basically, it was a big hassle. If IT staff were provisioning new PCs, they could handle all of this, but if you wanted to add BitLocker to devices that were already in users’ hands, those users would have struggled with the technical challenges and would either call IT for support or simply leave BitLocker disabled.

Microsoft includes instrumentation in Windows 10 that enables the operating system to fully manage the TPM. There is no need to go into the BIOS, and all scenarios that required a restart have been eliminated.

Deploy hard drive encryption

BitLocker is capable of encrypting entire hard drives, including both system and data drives. BitLocker pre-provisioning can drastically reduce the time required to provision new PCs with BitLocker enabled. With Windows 10, administrators can turn on BitLocker and the TPM from within the Windows Preinstallation Environment before they install Windows or as part of an automated deployment task sequence without any user interaction. Combined with Used Disk Space Only encryption and a mostly empty drive (because Windows is not yet installed), it takes only a few seconds to enable BitLocker.With earlier versions of Windows, administrators had to enable BitLocker after Windows had been installed. Although this process could be automated, BitLocker would need to encrypt the entire drive, a process that could take anywhere from several hours to more than a day depending on drive size and performance, which significantly delayed deployment. Microsoft has improved this process through multiple features in Windows 10.

BitLocker Device Encryption

Beginning in Windows 8.1, Windows automatically enables BitLocker Device Encryption on devices that support Modern Standby. With Windows 10, Microsoft offers BitLocker Device Encryption support on a much broader range of devices, including those that are Modern Standby, and devices that run Windows 10 Home edition.

Microsoft expects that most devices in the future will pass the testing requirements, which makes BitLocker Device Encryption pervasive across modern Windows devices. BitLocker Device Encryption further protects the system by transparently implementing device-wide data encryption.

Unlike a standard BitLocker implementation, BitLocker Device Encryption is enabled automatically so that the device is always protected. The following list outlines how this happens:

When a clean installation of Windows 10 is completed and the out-of-box experience is finished, the computer is prepared for first use. As part of this pre

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