BitLocker is officially only available for Windows 10/11 Pro. However, the tool is actually also included in the Home versions, just hidden.

With open source software, you can secure your system quickly and easily. For Windows users, we recommend using VeraCrypt –it’s less likely to impact your laptop’s performance.

This is one of the most important free encryption projects for Windows, so if you feel strongly about privacy, Gpg4win is a worthy cause indeed.

Sun is offering to give away its encryption key management software interface for nothing. Customers with devices that encrypt data will be able to interoperate with a Sun key management system ...

The hardware-based hard drive encryption solution is easy to deploy and requires no additional software to provide 64-bit DES/TDES data encryption.

Full disk encryption has become a laptop requirement and Windows Vista can provide this functionality for the price of admission. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

You can’t get simpler than EncryptionSafe's drag-and-drop encryption. It offers the basics for free, and even the feature-enhanced Pro edition is quite inexpensive.

However, some attacks that work against software-based encryption products also affect SEDs, including evil maid attacks and those that bypass Windows authentication, the researchers said.