The final step in moving the USGS DAR encryption project into a compliance phase is to enable automatic shutdowns of non-compliant systems. Respecting the September Fiscal Year Closeout Activities, a decision was made to move the shutdown activities that were supposed to start on August 29, 2022, to Monday, October 17, 2022 providing additional time for sites to remediate non-compliant …
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Beginning on May 2, 2016, the Security Team will be contacting sites and pushing the encryption software to windows laptop systems that are not encrypted nor have an ANS form filed.
Sites are strongly encouraged to have their systems 1) backed up and 2) hard drives scanned for errors PRIOR to encryption being applied to their remaining systems.
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