Summaries the functions of BitLocker you used in the lab (Just focus on BitLocker not GPO). Discuss the protection BitLocker provides the user. How the Recovery Key should be stored securely.
BitLocker was used to Lock a drive specified by myself. This was achieved by first creating a partisan drive which i named D:
through a gpo we enabled the option to use Bitlocker on the windows 8 machine. Once the partition drive was created all you needed to do was to right click on the drive and select BitLocker. In the setup of bitlocker we selected password protection and created a password. At the same time we also created and stored a recovery key for the drive and stored it within the documents folder.
The drive displayed a lock icon and depending if you restated the computer or not the drive got locked requiring either the password to gain access or by selecting the more options tab and selecting unlock with the recovery key. Both methods unlocked the drive for use.
To lock the drive all you needed to do was to restart or power off the computer.
For the storage of the recovery key I would not store on the same computer but instead store it on a lockable external drive or usb.
Bachelor of Information Technology (NMIT) 