HP Client Security Commercial Managed IT Software Technical whitepaper
HP Client Security Technical Whitepaper 
August 2016 
747889-002 
© Copyright 2016 HP Development Company, L.P. 
HP Drive Encryption (HPDE)  29 
13.1.2 Notifications 
HPDE displays various actionable notifications in two ways as shown in Table 4. Color indicates the severity of the 
notification and the associated message guides the user to what needs to be done. Notifications can be dismissed by 
clicking on the ‘X’ on the right of the notification. 
Table 4  Actionable Notifications 
Color 
Message 
Can be dismissed? 
Yes/No 
Action 
Red 
Your data is at risk. Please encrypt 
your drive now. 
Yes 
  Unless a policy prevents this item from 
being dismissed, this can be 
dismissed. 
  Upon clicking on the “Requires 
Attention button,” the administrator 
will be redirected to the HPCS Drive 
Encryption Activation page. 
Yellow 
Your drive is currently being 
encrypted. When completed, your 
data will be protected with 
encryption. 
Yes 
No action 
Yellow 
Your drive is currently being 
decrypted. 
Yes 
No action 
Yellow 
Your drive is managed. HP Client 
Security cannot manage this drive. 
Yes 
Notification appears when the drive is 
already encrypted and managed by 3rd 
party software 
No action 
Yellow 
One of your drives is not encrypted. 
Yes 
  This is only applicable for non-OS 
partition(s) and/or external drive. 
  Administrator will be redirected to 
HPCS Drive Encryption Activation page. 
No color 
Your data is protected with 
encryption. 
Yes 
  If the only drive is the OS partition and 
if it is encrypted, it will show this 
notification. 
  If there is more than one drives (either 
user created partition and/or external 
drive attached) and if they are all 
encrypted, it will show this notification. 
No action 
13.1.3 Technical Details 
  Usage 
○  Windows Administrator user 
  Can configure HPDE policy. 
  Can activate and de-activate drive encryption. 
  Can backup and restore the encryption key. 
○  Windows standard user 










