Setting encryption passwords

Some corporate policies dictate that sensitive data be encrypted before being copied to a removable media device such as a USB drive. If this is the case for your organization, you cannot copy files to such media until you set the password to decrypt them.

Set the password one time on a Windows machine running Forcepoint DLP endpoint. Once configured, any time you copy sensitive data to removable media, it is encrypted and copied along with a Forcepoint Decryption Utility to the device. To access the encrypted files on any other machine - including those where the Forcepoint DLP Endpoint is not installed, or even if the same password is configured - the password must still be manually entered in the decryption utility. Password-based encryption always requires explicit user input to decrypt, regardless of password similarity across machines.