DriveLock pre-boot authentication

DriveLock Pre-Boot Authentication (PBA) can be used for both DriveLock encryption technologies - BitLocker and Disk Protection (Full Disk Encryption, FDE). A separate license is required for DriveLock Pre-Boot Authentication for BitLocker.

Please note that the PBA only works on UEFI systems from Windows 10 environments.

The older BIOS PBA can only be used in Windows 7 or 8.1 environments, it is no longer updated and is only used for DriveLock Disk Protection (FDE). When you implement BitLocker Management on BIOS systems, the native BitLocker PBA is used.

DriveLock pre-boot authentication offers you a number of benefits:

• Login with user name / password
• Recovery using challenge response procedure
• Single sign-on (SSO) for Windows logon
• Login with Smartcard
• Support for other keyboard layouts and virtual keyboard
• Exchangeable PBA background images