Learn how to use EFS Encryption to secure files, via Advanced File Attributes or using the cipher command line tool and make them inaccessible to others.

Consequently, many business managers and owners choose to secure data using EFS, or Encrypting File System, encryption available in Windows.

EFS features the ability to create backups of your encryption certificates and keys -- ensuring that you don't lose access to important files.

This article from Windowsecurity.com examines how to manage and use Microsoft's Encrypting File System in a Windows 2000 or Server 2003 domain.

Logged in, and there's some notification asking me to backup the key because it is encrypting my file system. I didn't ask it to do that, and I wasn't even logged in as admin before the reboot.

If any file is being encrypted by EFS in the restore point, the System Restore program will have to call the EFS service to extract files of this kind from the restore point. However, because the ...

If you have EFS enabled on your network, I would hope you have defined at least one EFS Recovery Agent. When you look at an EFS encrypted file details it lists the certificate for that EFS ...

The lab-developed ransomware strain relies on the Encrypting File System (EFS) component in Microsoft's operating system and can run undetected by some antivirus software.