All staff and students are highly suggested to encrypt their portable storage devices such as USB drives and external hard disks if the devices contain personal and sensitive files.

BitLocker is a file encryption tool available in Windows 7 and 10 which provides a simple interface to encrypt portable storage devices to address threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned storage devices.

You may follow our step by step user guide to encrypt and access your USB drive.