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Password Protect Access to OneDrive for Business from PC
In response to your hard drive being taken out and used externally. If you are using secure boot and Bitlocker drive encryption (standard in all Windows 8 and 10 hardware), your drive can not be read as the date is encrypted and tied to the device hardware. Unless your storing state secrets, the amount and time, effort and cost involved to gain access to your hard drive would not be worth it. The thief would be better off going after a Windows 7 laptop or Windows 10 running on W7 hardware.
Our goal is to reduce the amount of times you need to log in to applications, hence single sign on. If you need to password protect a folder, there are many third part apps available but, additional encryption of a folder will cause the folder to synch more slowly and you will need the unencryption key to access and unlock the data.
I will pass your feedback onto the team. It's a feature we may look at for consumer (a password protected vault perhaps) but for business, there are always so many ways to additionally protect content with DRM, DLP, IRM, AIP and WIP as well as customer lockbox and hold your own encryption key, I don't feel this is a path we would pursue but I will pass it on.
Thanks for the comments,
-Stephen
I am not tech savvy but here goes.
I password protect login to my laptop - so in theory no-one can login without my password. However I have been told that someone who knows what they are doing could probably bypass the login password and gain access to my laptop. If they did this by removing the hard disc or using some other device I felt that a secondary login to the online files which I will store on OneDrive would be useful as I don't plan to store these sensitive business files on the laptop hard drive - I plan to have them online only as I thought it would add extra security i.e If someone did somehow get the laptop booted by bypassing the login password they would then have to bypass a secondary password protected login to access my business files on OneDrive and hopefully by the time they get round to that I would realise the laptop is gone and delete the OneDrive files remotely.
Does any of that make sense???
In response to your hard drive being taken out and used externally. If you are using secure boot and Bitlocker drive encryption (standard in all Windows 8 and 10 hardware), your drive can not be read as the date is encrypted and tied to the device hardware. Unless your storing state secrets, the amount and time, effort and cost involved to gain access to your hard drive would not be worth it. The thief would be better off going after a Windows 7 laptop or Windows 10 running on W7 hardware.
Our goal is to reduce the amount of times you need to log in to applications, hence single sign on. If you need to password protect a folder, there are many third part apps available but, additional encryption of a folder will cause the folder to synch more slowly and you will need the unencryption key to access and unlock the data.
I will pass your feedback onto the team. It's a feature we may look at for consumer (a password protected vault perhaps) but for business, there are always so many ways to additionally protect content with DRM, DLP, IRM, AIP and WIP as well as customer lockbox and hold your own encryption key, I don't feel this is a path we would pursue but I will pass it on.
Thanks for the comments,
-Stephen