SensiGuard is a great choice if you're looking for strong encryption of your personal or professional files. It uses some of the most secure encryption technology available today, and it can compress your files to a fraction of their original size, helping you send and share them with ease. The downside is that the process does take a little longer than some. It also features a superb stealth mode, making it one of our top choices when it comes to the best encryption software SensiGuard uses the best encryption algorithm available. It encrypts your files with the same code that the U.S. government, military and banks use: 256-bit AES. This is the most secure you can get. The software includes a few other security features that are nice to have, like a file shredder and a password strength meter.
Without Encryption, Your Computer Can Become Your Enemy Is the personal information on your computer secure? Do you have confidential documents sitting in unprotected folders? What would happen if your most private files fell into the wrong hands? Relax. SensiGuard is the fastest and the easiest way to protect files and folders on your PC and your USB flash drives. STAY IN CONTROL with SensiGuard file encryption software - the hassle-free way to protect your confidential data, such as documents, photos and personal information. SensiGuard provides robust file and folder encryption, which means that you will never have to worry about your private information leaking out. Your credit card data, personal emails, tax returns, photos and other private files will remain under lock and key.
You can email encrypted files to a recipient or store your encrypted files online or on flash drives or external hard drives. However, you or your recipient needs to have SensiGuard installed on the device used to open the encrypted files, along with the password or the key.
SensiGuard sticks strictly to locking, unlocking and shredding data, not expanding its capabilities over to other security areas. Whereas some competitors tend to utilize additional options like stealth mode, online backup or professional password management, this product stays more down-to-earth, yet does provide the essentials of information safety within the declared competence. Advanced Encryption Protection consists in the use of the generally accepted 256-bit AES encryption which proved to be reliable and trouble-free. While we didn’t manage to verify this as the standard is not mentioned anywhere in the software itself, the vendor states it’s being applied. Provided that it’s true, SensiGuard protects your files the right way, making them unavailable for others to access owing to strong encryption. Instant File or Folder Locking – this feature means that regardless of the item you are going to encrypt (be it an individual file or a directory with all of its contents), you are just a click away from the goal, once you’ve located the right object. Indeed, doing this with this software is made as simple as ABC.
Permanent File Deletion option merges the area of SensiGuard’s direct encryption goals with something Windows cannot fully provide, i.e. complete data wiping. This feature enables irreversibly erasing selected files with no further recovery possibilities. Please be really careful with this as not even forensic tools with be able to get thus deleted items back. Unlike encryption, shredding won’t leave you options for retrieving the wiped files in any form. Flash Drive Safety makes it easy to safely transfer your files by creating the above-mentioned ‘SensiGuard USB Vaults’ on flash memory sticks (see Usability section). Furthermore, it’s really convenient to be able to decrypt these files on another computer regardless of whether it has SensiGuard installed on it or not. With this feature in store, you needn’t worry about misplaced, lost or stolen flash memory – it’s totally unrevealing for any third parties without the password that only you know. It’s also great to know the USB feature is free of charge, and you can continue using it even after the evaluation copy of the main software expires. We are afraid Password Management is something SensiGuard barely provides. You see, the way this software is supposedly useful for this is the option to type usernames and passwords in a separate document, and then encrypt it via the ‘Lock Selected File’ feature. Now, what does this have to do with password management? We are not sure. The best practices in this niche include remembering, automatic storing and entering user credentials apart from simply storing them in some secure location. We’d rather call this feature something like ‘Locking a file containing usernames and passwords’. In any case, the software does not appear to have a standalone feature for this, although it is listed by the vendor as one of the supplied functionalities.
It’s obvious some of the competing products are more functional, yet quite a bit more complex to use. Unlike Folder Lock application that we reviewed earlier, SensiGuard does not have the online backup service, the electronic wallets feature, CD protection or stealth mode. As compared to SafeHouse Personal Edition software, you don’t get the Activity Monitor here which adds value to privacy infringement countermeasures. Therefore, while privacy-oriented beginners should appreciate SensiGuard’s simplicity, the features accommodated in this software are likely to be insufficient for advanced users.