Recommendations for ensuring Dekart Private Disk security

In order to enhance protection of your proprietary information we advise that you follow the recommendations listed below.

Tip#1. The password you choose for your virtual encrypted disk should not be too short. The optimal length – 8 random symbols, including upper-case and lower-case letters, digits, punctuation marks etc. Neither write the password down, nor hide this note (if you did write it) under your keyboard, try to remember it!

Tip#2. Create backup copies of your virtual encrypted disks at a regular interval. This will allow you to restore your data in case the file-images are lost or corrupted (see Backing up virtual encrypted disk data and Restoring virtual encrypted disk data sections).

Tip#3. Create backup copies of the encryption keys. In case you forget the password for accessing the encrypted disk, the backup copy of the encryption key will allow you to decrypt the data (see Creating backup copy of the encryption key and Restoring the encryption key of the virtual encrypted disk from the backup copy). Moreover, you should enable Try to create a backup copy of the disk's encryption key automatically, to create such copies automatically.

Tip#4. When leaving your workplace, even for a short period of time, don't forget to unmount all mounted virtual encrypted disks (see Mounting/unmounting virtual encrypted disk section).

Tip#5. To provide a greater level of protection for your encrypted data, define a white-list of applications that are allowed to access the contents of the virtual drive (see Managing the list of applications which are allowed to access the encrypted disk section).

Tip#6. To make sure that encrypted data cannot be recovered, erase the unused encrypted images using Private Disk's special feature (see Deleting virtual encrypted disk section). In this case, the encrypted image will be filled with random data before being deleted