Does Endpoint Security Disk Encryption have pre-boot auth?

Does Endpoint Security Disk Encryption have pre-boot authentication? We looked at it in the past and this feature was not available. Thanks
Danny

No. ZESM only does post-login authentication for fixed disk and removable storage encryption.
If the windows user that logins does not know this password, the encryption driver will not decrypt the stored information. That's the way it works.
Best,
Daniel
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To:novell.support.zenworks.endpoint-security-management
Date: 11/11/2009 6:16 PM
Subject: Does Endpoint Security Disk Encryption have pre-boot auth?
Does Endpoint Security Disk Encryption have pre-boot authentication? We
looked at it in the past and this feature was not available. Thanks
Danny
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            Revertible:         No
            LV Name:            2011-07-24
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> Logical Volume Family A54F382A-54A0-4295-B3A8-1CA0E92341C4
|       ----------------------------------------------------------
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|           Size (Total):       999542140928 B (999.5 GB)
|           Size (Converted):   -none-
|           Revertible:         Yes (no decryption required)
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youtube.com/watch?v=0npTlOq6q_0
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I'm a network administrator and have been dedicated Windows until now. We are just about to receive our first Mac Air 13" in the office and trying to work out we can keep our security policy in tact whilst giving the flexibility of using Windows.
Pretty sure we want to do boot camp so the user can decide which OS they want to go into and not have any performance issues.
Do you know of any products that will encrypt the entire hard disk this without giving booting issues?
Alternatively, if these products break booting they would have to log in to the Mac OS and then run a virtual machine (think it's called parrallels). Is there a noticable performance hit on this?
Thanks in advance - this is very new territoty for a long term windows fan boy
Adam

The encryption is dependant on the OS version. To my knowledge there is no way to Encrypt the Whole Drive with any one piece of software and then install both OS X and Windows on that drive. For the encryption to work it has to work with the OS installed. So you have OS X and then use Boot Camp to install Windows. Then use FileVault in OS X and whatever encryption system you want for the Windows partition/install.
I could be complete mistaken.

Does Endpoint Security Disk Encryption have pre-boot auth?

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