Tag: Personal identification number

• 1-2-3-4-5 BitLocker 9-8-7-6-5

  I was sitting in a planning meeting with a client recently in which we were discussing ways of protecting end-user machines, especially laptops that were in and out of the office.  The previous convention relied on BIOS locks that were proprietary to the hardware manufacturer, and required the end user to either enter two passwords…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 18, 2013

  BitLocker, Encryption, Group Policy, Security, Windows 8

  BIOS, BitLocker, BitLocker Drive Encryption, Encryption, Personal identification number, Trusted Platform Module, Windows, Windows Vista

• Logon Options in Windows 8

  The three-fingers salute is gone. Okay, that is not entirely true, but if your computer is not domain-joined, you will no longer need to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to log onto Windows.  That doesn’t mean that you won’t be asked for a password… However, built into Windows 8 there are two new ways to log on: PIN…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 29, 2012

  Picture Password, pictures, PIN, Windows 8

  Login, Microsoft Windows, Password, Personal computer, Personal identification number, Security, Windows, Windows 8