Hello all,
We are using SafeGuard Easy 5.60.1.7 ans using it to encrypt a mix of Dell Laptops running Win7 Pro 32/64bit. We have been able to successfully deploy the encryption packages without to many issues. However we have run into one issue that we have had some trouble finding any information on.
The issue is that multiple laptop users have external USB media(e.i. - flash drives, USB hard drives) and when they plug in their extrenal devices it auto-encrypts the media. We do not want this to happen. We understand that having unencrypted extrenal media on an encrypted laptop defeats the purpose of encryption all together, but this is only for use on a few "Admin" machines. We have found a temporary solution of disabling the Sophos SafeGuard Disk Encryption Control service on the machine in question, but that is not a good permanent solution for us.
Is there a policy setting change that we can make in the Policy Editor that disables the auto-encryption of extrenal media. After reading through the installation/startup guides for SGE 5.6, it doesnt really talk about how to do this. It does say however that you can select your Target Devices. If i Select Boot Volumes in this section, will it then only encrypt boot devices, and then also not encrypt non-boot devices?
Any advice on this issue would be appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help. If you need any more background info, please let me know.
-1stMid_IT
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