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.

Since DriveLock Legacy BIOS Pre-Boot Authentication is no longer supported starting with version 2022.2, the system checks if there is an active Legacy BIOS PBA on the system when installing an agent. In this case, no update or installation of the agent will be performed.

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