Personal Data Encryption

Easily managing Personal Data Encryption for known Windows folders

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This week is a follow up to this post of a few months ago about getting started with Personal Data Encryption (PDE). That post was really focused on the early introduction of PDE and the functionality that it brings to the table, while this post will basically add-on to that functionality and knowledge. PDE is still a pretty unknown feature that is now actually growing in useful functionalities and could become a very welcome addition to the available data protection capabilities on Windows. With the latest version of Windows 11, version 24H2, PDE now also contains the ability to protect personal data in known Windows folders. Those known Windows folders are Documents, Desktop, and Pictures. That provides organizations with more protection capabilities for personal data, …

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Getting started with Personal Data Encryption

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This week is all about a nice feature that has been introduced over a year ago, but that didn’t receive a lot of attention yet. That feature is Personal Data Encryption (PDE). PDE was introduced with Windows 11, version 22H2, as a security feature that provides file-based data encryption functionalities to Windows. Not as an alternative to BitLocker, but to work alongside BitLocker. Were the decryption key of BitLocker is released during the boot of the device, the decryption key of PDE is released during the sign-in of the user by using Windows Hello for Business. That makes sure that PDE is basically an additional layer of security, on top of BitLocker, that can focus on providing an additional layer of security for specific apps …

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