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Andrew Bettany and Mike HalseyWindows File System Troubleshooting10.1007/978-1-4842-1016-1_5

5. Managing and Troubleshooting Encryption

Mike Halsey and Andrew Bettany2
(1)
Microsoft MVP, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
(2)
Microsoft MVP, York, North Yorkshire, UK
 
Encryption is the friend we all love to hate. On the one hand, it’s an (almost) cast-iron guarantee that when a company server gets hacked or leaks occur, which they do more often than we read about in the news, any data loss won’t result in that data being revealed. On the other hand, if something goes wrong with that encryption, all of the valuable data can be lost.
The obvious solution is to keep a separate, unencrypted backup copy of all the data in ...

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