Safeguard Enterprise 6.00.1 Full-Encryption

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Hello guys,

I have installed our new Safeguard Enterprise 6.00.1 server and now it's working fine. I got one question to the full disk encryption performance. Is it possible that I get the whole performance speed to encrypt our hard disks? Is there an option that I could configure? Because we are deploying with SCCM our workstations and after the deployment job, safeguard is encrypting with 10% CPU usage.

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ChrisD · Accepted Answer

Hi David, the SafeGuard Device Encryption module automatically allocates resources for the initial encryption process and balances the required resources in a way that the end user is not limited when working on the machine. This automatically performance balancing is always enabled. If you want to speed up the initial encryption process, you might want to take a look at the "Fast Initial Encryption" feature: As of SafeGuard version 5.50.8 an optimized handling of the Initial Encryption (called "Fast Initial Encryption") is now available. It uses full-disk encryption which typically significantly reduces the duration of the initial encryption process. By limiting the initial encryption to hard disk space that is actually 'used' and not all the available physical disk space, the performance gain can be dramatic, depending of course on the percentage of used disk space. This new encryption mode can also improve the runtime performance on SSD drives that become slow as soon as the volume is full. This new operational mode can be controlled along with the other encryption policy settings. A node on CPU load: SafeGuard Device Encryption / SafeGuard Easy version 6 use the hardware based encryption technology built into the latest i5 and i7 processors from Intel™. SafeGuard Device Encryption, as of version 6, uses hardware-accelerated AES on computers equipped with a CPU that supports Intel AES-NI (AES - New Instructions) to improve performance and user experience. Regards, Chris :44857