Setting Up Data Defense

Setting Up Data Defense

After completing the installation and activating your account, you can proceed to set up Data Defense.  Log in to your account and follow the on-screen wizard, which will guide you through:
  1. Setting up a Secure Drive (if available).
  2. Configuring folder protection to safeguard your data.
  1. Click the Data Defense Dashboard icon on your desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Data Defense account.
    1. The setup wizard will scan the system.
  3. Accept or change the secure drive size as needed.
  4. Change the protection mode to NOT During threats, to ensure the drive remains Always secure for this tutorial. 
  5. Click Confirm to proceed.
  6. You can optionally add protected folders by selecting from the predefined list or specifying your own custom locations. However, this article does not cover this protection feature.
  7. Select Skip to bypass this step.
  8. To review or modify your selections, click the Change buttons.
  9. Click Confirm to complete the setup wizard.
Notes
It may take a few minutes to initialize the secure drive. During this process, Windows may display notifications indicating that a new drive is available.
Once the initialization is complete, you will see an Always On drive (typically labeled as L:) in File Explorer.

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