Microsoft BitLocker Reviews

The primary use case of this solution is to encrypt all of our laptops. If they are ever lost then they are useless to anybody, unless they have the key. 

Our keys are stored in our Active Directory, making it impossible for anyone to decrypt what we have in our devices.

The most valuable feature is the simplicity and integration with the Microsoft Clouds platform. I can store the keys to the devices kept in my Active Directory in Microsoft Azure.

In the next generation, it could have a higher level of encryption.

I would like to be able to encrypt our cloud tenancy.

I would like to have the ability to encrypt a cloud-based server with BitLocker.

I have been using this solution for six months.

The stability is fine. It has no impact on performance or negligible impact on performance. No one notices.

The scalability is essentially unlimited.

We have 60 users who are everyone from the CEO to the standard line worker.

Everyone in our organization is encrypted with BitLocker, in addition to all of our devices. 

All of our laptops, PCs, and all of our interactive devices are encrypted with BitLocker.

I have contacted Microsoft technical support for other issues and they are very responsive and very quick to follow up. 

Solutions are not always there, but I find Microsoft support reasonable.

I haven't needed technical support for BitLocker.

There was no other solution in place. We deployed BitLocker because it fits within our strategy for the environment that we were building, which is a no-infrastructure infrastructure.

The initial setup was very simple.

We expected that the devices had to encrypt themselves once we initiated BitLocker.

Deploying them and having the encryption run only took a few days to implement. This was all being done in the background and no one was impacted while they worked.

We only need one staff member for deployment and no one for maintenance, as it is auto-updating from the Microsoft Cloud.

We implemented this solution internally. 

The cost of this solution is bundled in with part of the subscription for the Microsoft Cloud. 

We have users subscribed to Enterprise E5 and it comes with E5.

We researched a few websites for comparative encryption, but we didn't want to introduce another vendor. BitLocker satisfied all of the criteria that we had. We don't need any military-grade or any military level or anything beyond those capabilities.

We have no infrastructure. Everything we have, our entire infrastructure, has moved and it's in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

This solution does everything that we need it to do. It is very convenient and it fits into our strategy of having everything in a homogeneous Microsoft Cloud. 

It is difficult to rate anything a ten as there may be future bugs or features that may be introduced, or if someone can discover how to hack it. At this time, we feel very safe and very covered with the encryption levels that we have with BitLocker.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We used Microsoft BitLocker to protect our laptops from theft. We have auditors that come and check to see the security of our systems and with this solution we are secure.

The solution could improve by having a centralized GUI for management.

I used Microsoft BitLocker within the past 12 months.

Microsoft BitLocker is stable.

I have a very small project and I implemented Microsoft BitLocker using GPO. Previously, we deploy Microsoft BitLocker using MBAM.

You can do a silent remote deployment very fast.

Microsoft BitLocker is a free feature when you are using Microsoft solutions.

I could advise any company to then deploy Microsoft BitLocker, first of all, because the product is free and the end user's computer performance is not affected. There are some products that when you install it on the end user's system, their system can become very slow.

I rate Microsoft BitLocker an eight out of ten.

BitLocker is a feature of which enables hard drive encryption. It's similar to Symantec Endpoint Encryption. For us, both go hand-in-hand, however, BitLocker has an advantage in that it stores the key in TPM. 

The hard drive encryption is very good.

Right now, the problem for us is, if a laptop is stolen, how they address it with the hard drive if it is already protected in BitLocker? We cannot protect anything until we have a centralized server feed where w can get all the information from all the laptop and the device if it does get stolen. Currently, to solve this, we are using a solution called Unbound.

I'm a hardcore developer. I don't know whether the solution has any source files. That said, I don't see anything that's really lacking, feature-wise. 

It's possible that the time it takes to pull items in to BitLocker could be reduced a bit. It can take a long time - sometimes up to 90 minutes.

I've been using the solution since I started working for my current company. I haven't been with them for so long and therefore haven't been working with the solution for too long just yet.

We have about 80,000 laptops and an encryption rate of approximately 99%. The stability seems to be pretty good.

I haven't attempted to scale the solution. I wouldn't be able to properly discuss how scalable it is at this time.

Currently, we have the solution on approximately 80,000 laptops.

I'm not sure if we will increase usage. I'm actually considering changing the solution in the near future.

I haven't really had any contact with technical support. Since I've never used them, I can't really discuss if they are responsive or knowledgable. Right now, my sole purpose is to look for an alternative to Unbound, and therefore I don't work too much with BitLocker troubleshooting.

I didn't handle the initial setup. It would be impossible for me to discuss the process or to talk about if it is difficult or straightforward. I didn't handle any aspect of the implementation.

I'm not really involved in the pricing aspect of the solution. I don't know if it is expensive or reasonably priced.

I essentially joined the company and since I got here all the laptops and endpoints have been encrypted using BitLocker. We are using IBM as management for all the data and to stop Microsoft from taking away Unbound support.

We are looking for an alternative. We're curious about Symantec or endpoint encryptions that I can use with BitLocker, on top of the Symantec client that I have. 

We're using the latest version of the solution, from what I understand. We load the solution directly onto laptops.

I would recommend the solution. However, if I find another endpoint solution, I may switch. I'm not tied to this product.

I don't have a lot of experience on the solution just yet. I'm still evaluating it in a lot of ways, and discovering the features.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

Protect corporate data on devices (Laptops, Desktops, Tablets).
every week 100's of corporate devices lost just at airports and every device got personal/corporate data, its very important to protect such data from unauthorised use, hence is the solution to implement Microsoft Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM)

I delivered three projects where the business does not have any encryption mechanism in place if the company or an employee lost any of the device, there are chances someone could view sensitive data. After the Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) implementation, in such cases, any unauthorised person will not be able to access the data.

If you already have older version of MBAM in place, there is an option to move existing keys over to new server which is great.

All keys stored centerally in database (SQL), option to have PIN / Enhanced PIN / USB Drives.

Microsoft Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) is one of the best solution available in the marekt to protect corporate data

Since it is a Microsoft product, there are no compatibility issues. Once planned well, it is a straightforward implementation.

No issues.

There is not much support unless a business has got a Premier support contract in place.

MBAM is the only solution that I have used for encryption.

You need to know the technical aspects and have a good understanding of Microsoft Client/Server OS. If you know that, then yes, it is pretty straightforward.

Well worth and perfect solution specially align with GDPR.

It is part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and economical compare to similar products.

No, we do not.

Look at TechNet for relevant documentation and test many times before implementing in your production environment.

We use this solution to protect our data in the event that it is stolen or a laptop goes missing. We make use of the encryption scheme.

Being able to encrypt an entire hard disk has been most valuable.

The solution could be improved if it was more user friendly. 

We have been using this solution for three years.

This is a stable solution. 

The customer service for this solution is excellent. I would rate it a five out of five. 

Positive

The initial setup is not difficult. You can set it up using policy levels. The pilot testing took less than one week.

I would recommend this solution to others. The best feature is that we can secure organization data using folder encryption. 

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

It is easy to use. It is usually easy to recover someone's privacy. The manageability is much easier than McAfee. I think that Microsoft is a leader in this area. We are in the Microsoft school so our judgment of McAfee will be a little bit unfair as we recommend Microsoft all the time because of the easy manageability and support. I think that McAfee is designed for a different customer and every time we open a ticket with their support, it takes a very, very long time. The main difference is just the manageability and support. In terms of the solution itself or the functionality, I know that McAfee is very strong, but manageability and support, for us, is much more important. It strengthens the solution for us.

We've been using this solution for almost six years.

The solution is very stable. I think that it's easy to start.

We tested with 300 users to date. The maximum deployment with it is for 300 users. That is not too much, but we are trying to scale it up. I don't think that we'll have a problem because it's the count for minimum deployment for Microsoft to support is already 5,000. I think that it can scale up to 5,000 without much hardware needed.

It is usually based on the number of computers and how this will be leveraged by the user. A normal project takes from one to two months, depending on the numbers. These numbers are read on the different departments and different mindsets of the users, in order to convince them to start correcting their data and explain to them that you will force a policy that will have an impact on their laptops. Afterward, encourage them in how this is chiefly for them. Usually, it takes a month or two months maximum.

It's not about pricing, because we are working with Enterprise companies that already have Windows Enterprise, so BitLocker comes already included as a Windows feature. It's free for Enterprise users. The price is only for deployment. The customer will pay for McAfee, however.

We are a partner for Microsoft here in Saudi Arabia, and one of our customers is interested in deploying Microsoft BitLocker to secure his computer devices and laptops, to encrypt all his data for hard disks, etc. I am already moving to read some documents and have some comparison between McAfee and BitLocker in order to convince the customer to install Microsoft BitLocker because from our insight we see that Microsoft BitLocker is much better than McAfee. That's why I was in need a document just to have a comparison between McAfee and Microsoft BitLocker.

From my point of view, Microsoft is much easier than McAfee. It is easy to deploy and integrate with Active Directory. Then, you have much more integration capabilities than McAfee. Microsoft is stronger and the integration between Microsoft ESP and all other Bit solutions is much better than McAfee. McAfee is a standalone solution right now that will not be efficient for the protection that we are aiming for. We need protection that integrates with all kinds of malware protection solutions. I think that Microsoft BitLocker is much better than McAfee.

If anyone is looking for integration solutions and has a requirement related to integration between Active Directory and integration solutions, I think that he needs to strongly go to Microsoft BitLocker. If integration with Active Directory is not mandatory for him, I think that there are many other solutions in the market that equal or are much stronger than Microsoft.

I would give this solution an eight out of ten. In order to make it 9 or 10, I think that Microsoft would need to work on the desktop optimization deck that is coming with Microsoft to make the deployment much easier than what it is right now. Deployment is okay. As a partner, we can work on it without any issues, but some customers face issues deploying it by themselves because of the difficulty of understanding all of the requirements. The solution is very good and it is manageable for partners, because of their technical value or technical effort. For the level one customer help desk or administrator, however, it's not as easy. They should work on this part and make the deployment much easier.

It is an encryption tool and provides security.               

I have been using Microsoft BitLocker for the last two years.

The stability is satisfactory but I would rate it eight out of ten.

I have never contacted support myself, but they are extremely well-supported.

Positive

I would rate the overall product eight out of ten.