Guidance on storing sensitive data on a laptop

  • You should choose one of the following approaches :-
    1. encrypt the whole system (e.g. BitBlocker for Windows, FileVault for MacOS, user partition or whole disk encryption on Linux)
    2. encrypt your home directory (FileVault for MacOS)
    3. store sensitive data on an encrypted volume or encrypted USB key using a tool such as VeraCrypt, but see warning below.
    4. individually encrypt files containing sensitive data

Good Practice

The Good Practice Guide (or, How To Be a Considerate User)

This page contains some comments on good and bad practice when using computers within the School of Informatics. Following these guidelines should allow you to make the best use of the School's computing resources whilst minimising the impact on other users.

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