Consequently, many business managers and owners choose to secure data using EFS, or Encrypting File System, encryption available in Windows.

This article from Windowsecurity.com examines how to manage and use Microsoft's Encrypting File System in a Windows 2000 or Server 2003 domain.

Learn how to use EFS Encryption to secure files, via Advanced File Attributes or using the cipher command line tool and make them inaccessible to others.

Logged in, and there's some notification asking me to backup the key because it is encrypting my file system. I didn't ask it to do that, and I wasn't even logged in as admin before the reboot.

Recently Amazon announced that AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). With the support for EFS, they can share data across function ...

If you have EFS enabled on your network, I would hope you have defined at least one EFS Recovery Agent. When you look at an EFS encrypted file details it lists the certificate for that EFS ...

The lab-developed ransomware strain relies on the Encrypting File System (EFS) component in Microsoft's operating system and can run undetected by some antivirus software.

EFS features the ability to create backups of your encryption certificates and keys -- ensuring that you don't lose access to important files.

In this article, we will show you how to disable the "Encrypting File System (EFS)" service, on Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7.