Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
BitLocker for Servers
BitLocker Drive Encryption was introduced with Windows Vista and continued to mature and improve with the release of Windows 7 and now Windows 2012. In fact, the current release includes several features that make it a great candidate for servers. Providing an additional layer of physical security can be a welcome tool in sensitive environments or ad hoc facilities.
The following features of BitLocker should be of interest to server and security administrators:
• Support for BitLocker for clustered disks—Including failover cluster disks and cluster shared volumes.
• Faster provisioning—Faster initial encryption with option to encrypt used disk space only, faster deployment by integrating encrypted volumes into the imaging ...
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