Working with the workstation
Property and data protection
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Property and data protection
Your workstation enables you to protect your system and personal data against unauthorised
access in a number of ways. By combining these options, you can achieve maximum protection for
your system.
Security functions under Windows
Under Windows you can activate a screen saver and protect it with a password. Only those users
who know the password can deactivate the screen saver and access any open files.
BIOS Setup security functions
The
Security
menu in
BIOS Setup
offers you various options for protecting your personal data against
unauthorised access. By combining these options, you can achieve maximum protection for your
system.
Preventing unauthorised
BIOS Setup
entry
You can activate this protection by setting a supervisor or a user password in the
Security
menu
(
Set Supervisor Password
/
Set User Password
).
Preventing unauthorised system access
You can activate this protection by setting a password in the
Security
menu. In addition, you must
select the entry
Enabled
in the
Password on boot
field.
Preventing unauthorised access to the hard disk drives
You activate this protection when you set a hard disk passwords in the
Hard Disk Security
submenu
of the
Security
menu. To do this, set the entry
HDD password
to
Enabled
.
If set, the hard disk passwords are checked at each system startup, regardless of whether
Password On Boot
is set to
Enabled
or
Disabled
.
Preventing unauthorised access to floppy disk drive
To activate this protection, select the value
Supervisor
for the
Diskette access
field in the
Security
menu.
