There are numerous reasons for encrypting your data but, in today's environment, avoiding a data breach is possibly the most important.  The SDHS is heavily protected against such an occurrence, but an extra layer of protection is available in the form of on-the-fly encryption from VeraCrypt.  Instead of reproducing the beginner's guide here, we have given you a link to VeraCrypt's own help guides below.

IMPORTANT

Should you choose to encrypt your data, you must remember your password/passphrase.  If you forget it, you will not be able to decrypt your data and it will be lost forever.

CSCS will not be able to recover encrypted data for you.

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