DESlock - Encrypt your valuable data!

What is DESlock+?

DESlock+ is a simple to use, encryption application for companies and organisations of all shapes and sizes.  This software protects your data and helps your organisation comply with government encryption requirements.

Encryption is the process of encoding information in such a way that only authorised persons can read it. Therefore encryption is essentially an additional layer of data security, even in the event that your laptop is stolen, encrypted data is worthless to a hacker. 

DESlock+ Features:

• Full Disk Encryption
• Removable Media Encryption
• DESlock+ Go Portable Encryption
• File and Folder Encryption
• Mail Encryption
• Text and Clipboard Encryption
• Virtual Disks and Compressed Archives
• Encryption Key Management
• Centralised Management
• Enterprise Server Proxy 

Centralised Management: All commands, updates, status requests and responses are posted via the DESlock+ Enterprise Proxy, allowing management of any user or workstation with a standard internet connection. Thus, allowing you to maintain control of remote workstations with ease. DESlock+ also allows for remote management where the encryption policy can be changed without user interaction, encryption keys can be added or removed, full disk encryption can be started and users may be recovered or reset.

DESlock+ Go Portable Encryption: DESlock+ Go is an on-device application which runs straight from the USB stick, needs no install and, with the right password allows the user to edit, read and write encrypted documents on any PC. On top of this DESlock+ can also protect USB sticks and other removable media with full disk or file level encryption. Full integration with key management system ensures fast, silent operation.

File and Folder Encryption: This feature allows you to choose the files and folders you want to be encrypted and then all files moved to an encrypted folder will be encrypted automatically.

Mail Encryption: DESlock+ offers transparent email encryption for Outlook through a dedicate plugin, where the email can only be decrypted by recipients who share the same key as the sender.  DESlock+ also works with most text based applications, encrypting and decrypting directly into the active window or via the Windows Clipboard, this form of encryption works with any email client.

Client Side:

Data is a critical part of every organisation, but this most valuable asset often poses a huge risk when it travels or is transmitted beyond the corporate network. Full disk and removable media encryption protect laptop computers against the unexpected. File, folder and email encryption allow fully secure collaboration across complex workgroups and team boundaries, with security policy enforced at all endpoints by the DESlock+ Enterprise Server. Meet your data security compliance obligations with a single MSI package.

Server Side:

The DESlock+ Enterprise server can manage users and workstations together or independently. Activation, and changes to security policy, software feature-set, encryption keys and endpoint status are all handled, securely through the cloud keeping your most high-risk endpoints under close control at all times.  Home and mobile working make extending encryption security policy beyond the perimeter of your network a necessity. Only DESlock+ offers full control wherever your users are.

For more information about DESlock+ call Andy on: 01723 587240

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How to recover an unsaved Microsoft Office Document...

Never worry about losing unsaved changes again!

We've all closed the document we were working on without saving the changes we’d made. And we've probably all had a mild panic when we realised that we hadn't saved our work. So here’s how to recover unsaved edits or even never before saved documents.

To recover recent, unsaved changes to a document follow these steps: 

•  Open the Word document that you were working on, click the ‘file’ tab in the top left of your screen.

• Down the left hand side you should see more tabs, make sure you are on the one labelled 'info'.
• This should give you a page with three headings, under the 'versions' heading it should show you all unsaved versions of the document you have open.

• Click on the version you need and once it opens SAVE IT!!

Alternatively, it is possible to recover a previously unsaved document in the event that you close it without saving it. Here’s how:

• As before open up Microsoft Word, this time just a blank document, and click the 'file' tab in the top left corner.
• From the tabs on the left hand side of the screen, select the 'recent' tab.

• This will show you a list of all the saved documents you have recently opened, and at the very bottom of the screen there is a folder labelled 'recover unsaved documents'. Double click this folder and this should open in a new window.

• In the new window chose the file you need from all your unsaved documents, open it and SAVE IT!!

Both of these methods can be carried out in other Microsoft Office applications, including Publisher and Excel.  

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