How to encrypt your external drives (Locking your flash drives)

A lot of us that are into computer security are always meticulous about the security of our data. We provide passwords on our PC. Some of us go to the extent of creating BIOS password, syskey, and then the windows login password. Some with extra paranoia will even use softwares like folder lock or PGP to encrypt their files and folders. This is really good and I am also a big fan of security because I implement it a lot but when I become the attacker, I hate security. I realized that all these accounting bank managers that are so careful with their data and some other individuals also will just provide all these security on their computers. Forgetting the fact that some of those information are in their flash drives, they just drop their flash drives carelessly sometimes. Sometimes it may not be a careless drop, you may get a physical attack and your flash drive will be stolen from you. Here I will show you a way to provide complete security to the data on your flash drives and other external drives. You do not need to download any software. Note: This tutorial is for windows users only Follow these steps to encrypt your drive: 1. Plug in the external drive into the USB port 2. Go to my computer and right- click the drive to be encrypted as shown below Now click "Turn on Bitlocker" 3. You will see something like this Click the first check button and provide the password you want for your drive then click next 4. Our computers know we are likely to forget some things so they provide us with backup option. Save a recovery file and if suits you to print it then do that and proceed Now there is a big question for you. Are you ready to encrypt? If you're with me on this then continue Grab a snack and chill for the encryption to be over. And that's it. The encryption is over To test this, you can unplug your drive and plug again. Now you have to type your password. I hope this post helps you security fanatics