Digital Guardian = from the ‘Justification’ prompt, describe the drive you are using and hit ‘Continue’ for short-term approval.

Non-Apricorn drive (or other previously-approved drive) =.

Windows/DG does not recognize drives encrypted with Filevault or Bitlocker.

Any Filevault-encrypted external drive = Macs with CoSoSys EP will automatically recognize and approve these drives.

Apricorn drive = you can continue to transfer data to or from it.

What if I’m already using an encrypted drive? Ordinarily, you should not notice the agent other than if you attempt to write to a non-Apricorn drive. Testing to date has shown minimal impact in the installation process other a reboot may be required to complete the installation. What are possible issues that can occur after the agent is deployed? The team has done extensive testing and any performance issues have been resolved. No, this is an automated system that only identifies the make/model of the drive – it does not examine the contents of the drive or your computer. Will the IT staff be able to see the contents of data being transferred between my drive and my computer? To request adding your existing hardware-encrypted drive to the policies, please go to Requesting Encrypted USB Enforcement Assistance and select the second radio button. Initially, only Apricorn drives will be recognized, but other hardware-encrypted drives can be added to the list if they meet the standards for compliance. Can I use an encrypted drive that is not from Apricorn? If the drive is an approved drive, you can both read from and write to the drive. You will still be allowed to copy from any drive to your computer.

This software will prevent writing to an externally-connected USB drive that is not on the approved list of drives.

The software agent (Digital Guardian (DG) on Windows, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector on Macs) will be installed on your computer.

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