DESlock+ wins our Best Buy award due to its simplicity of use, reliability and overall value for money. For many users, DESlock+ will meet all their basic encryption requirements while also providing some genuinely useful functionality and utilities. For personal users, the basic version is even available as a free download from the internet, so no one needs to miss out on the benefits of encryption.
Dekart Private Disk earns a Recommended award due to its slightly "out of the box" thinking, coupled with effective encryption. It offers good value for the individual user and is flexible enough to cover most requirements without becoming overly complex. It is also intuitive and easy to use, making encryption a workable option for just about anybody.
Our second Recommended award goes to SecureDoc due to its inherent flexibility, depth of design and standards-based approach. There is little worthwhile in the realm of hard drive data encryption that you couldn’t achieve with this product within a Windows environment. It is scalable up to enterprise level if you wish, and compatible with various authentication methodologies.