BitLocker To Go is a specific Microsoft Windows feature designed for full-volume encryption of removable storage devices, such as USB flash drives and external hard drives. The primary purpose of this technology is to protect data at rest on these portable devices. By training staff to use BitLocker To Go, an organization ensures that if a removable drive is lost or stolen, the sensitive data it contains remains confidential and inaccessible without the correct password or recovery key. This directly mitigates the risk associated with the loss or theft of portable media.

B: Secure Boot and BIOS passwords are firmware-level security measures to protect the boot process and system settings, not for encrypting data on removable media.

C: VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are used to encrypt data in transit across a network, which is unrelated to encrypting data at rest on a physical drive.

D: This describes standard BitLocker Drive Encryption for internal, fixed hard drives, which often integrates with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), not the "To Go" version for removable drives.

1. Microsoft Corporation. (2023

October 12). BitLocker To Go FAQ. Microsoft Learn. Retrieved from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating-system-security/data-protection/bitlocker/bitlocker-to-go-faq.

Reference Detail: The document explicitly states

"BitLocker To Go is BitLocker Drive Encryption on removable data drives... BitLocker To Go allows users to encrypt the contents of a removable data drive and use a password to unlock the contents of the drive..." This directly supports the purpose described in option A.

2. Microsoft Corporation. (2023

October 12). BitLocker overview. Microsoft Learn. Retrieved from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating-system-security/data-protection/bitlocker/bitlocker-overview.

Reference Detail: This overview distinguishes between BitLocker for operating system drives (which can use a TPM) and BitLocker for removable data drives (BitLocker To Go)

clarifying why option D is incorrect as it describes the former.

3. University of Washington. (n.d.). Encrypt removable drives with BitLocker To Go. UW-IT Connect. Retrieved from https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/storage/encryption/bitlocker-to-go/.

Reference Detail: The page states

"BitLocker To Go is a full disk encryption feature... that allows you to encrypt removable storage devices such as USB flash drives and external hard drives." This reinforces that the technology's specific purpose is to protect removable media.