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Safe guard 8 - USB auto encryption windows 10

I have a policy working correctly for windows 7 that auto encrypts USB keys on insertion, and then you can remove the key and put it on another machine. But how can you do this on a windows 10 machine that is using bitlocker ?

I want to be able transfer data between the machines with a single USB key ( windows 7 and windows 10 ) and have the drive auto encrypted if inserted, Is this possible ?

Thanks

Jon

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0 FormerMember over 6 years ago

Hi Jon,

Yes this is possible, even though Windows 10 uses Bitlocker it uses that for the Full Disk Encryption, not File Encryption, which is the method to use when encrypting files on a USB stick on any version of Windows. Aslong as you have File Encryption and the same policies applied on your Windows 10 machine then you shouldn't see any difference.
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0 Jonathan Orme over 6 years ago in reply to FormerMember

Hi

thanks for your reply

so it has to be a File encryption policy ? rather then a Volume encryption policy.

Thanks

Jon
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0 MichaelMcLannahan over 6 years ago in reply to Jonathan Orme

BitLocker doesn't really do file encryption - just volume/drive. It is possible to mount virtual drives and encrypt those but it's a bit messy and not intuitive.

So yes, as Toby said. If you wish to encrypt files you'd have a SafeGuard file encryption policy and it would encrypt using Sophos encryption, but volumes/drives would be BitLocker (but managed by Sophos SafeGuard policy) If that makes sense?
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0 Jonathan Orme over 6 years ago in reply to MichaelMcLannahan

Hi yes that makes sense but will you be able to transfer file from windows 7 to 10 and visa versa ?
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0 Jonathan Orme over 6 years ago in reply to MichaelMcLannahan

Hi yes that makes sense but will you be able to transfer file from windows 7 to 10 and visa versa ?
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