Data Management, Recovery, Backup, Shredding & Encryption
What you'll learn
- Understand what happens on storage media level when you deleting a file
- Check HDD/SSD Health
- Know how does "TRIM" effect SSD performance and recovery possibility
- Recognize the symptoms of a failing HDD
- Use free and open source software to recover deleted/lost file on Windows/Mac/Linux
- Understand the difference between Full Format and Quick Format, and the effects on recovery process
- Recover a lost/deleted partition, and main the integrity of your data
- Create back up of your files
- Use free software to sync and duplicate the contents of any two folders for real-time redundancy
- Create clone of your storage drive
- Make Windows Backup
- Permanently delete -sanitize- sensitive data, preventing its recovery
- Use free/open source software to securely delete one file or more
- Shred the free space of any partition
- Nuke your drive to completely destroy all stored data
- Use Windows Built-in tools to shred the free space of any partition/folder
- Encrypt your Windows partition to add extra layer of security
- Encrypt any data partition or USB storage media
- Encrypt files using open source software
- Use Recovery Key to rescue your data of a BitLocker encrypted drive
Requirements
- If you want to recover/undelete lost data, stop using the drive that suffered data loss, using the drive will significantly reduce your chances in recovery
- This course require very basic knowledge of Windows OS
- All used software are free/open source
- This course includes step-by-step walk through for download, installation and usage for all required software
- A flash drive is required if you want to create bootable version of cloning software, and NUKE software, alternatively, you can burn this software to CD, although no guide was provided for that
Description
We are living in a digital world, all our information are now digital, our photos are small icons inside some folder, our Documents are PDFs and Docs here and there, our baby might finish his first year without taking a single film photo.
To keep a photo safe in the 80s, you'll place it in a neat album and hide this album in a cabinet, you'll keep you documents in your elegant Samsonite briefcase and "encrypt" it with a PIN, to make sure nobody will be able to read a note you made, you'll spend the afternoon shredding it into smaller and smaller pieces, so that no one can "recover" it.
Well, everything is now digital as I said, and this course will guide step by step to mange your data the right way.
This course is for everybody, literally anybody, if you can see this message, you can, and you will benefit from this course, if you want to:
- Recover/Undelete lost/deleted data.
- Prevent your data from being lost/deleted.
- Find out what options you have to keep your data backed up
- Safely delete sensitive data without worrying about the possibility of getting it back by the wrong people
- Encrypting your data to ensure you're the only one who can access it.
If these points are important to you, or at lease one of it, then you've came to right course, go ahead, get the course and let's start this journey together.
Who this course is for:
- This course is meant for all PC users
- Users who lost data and wants to recover it will find this course extremely useful
- This course will provide the sufficient knowledge to keep your data always safe
Course content
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Instructor
![Hazem Salam](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Hazem Salam, PMP, ITIL
I’m a computer engineer. I have four years of experience in technical and project management fields, two years experience in Technical sales/Presales field. I worked in Networking, Wireless Point to Point/Multi-point connections, Home Automation, CCTV systems and IT administration. In addition to all, I was a university lecturer for three years.