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Figure 5-24 Security tab

The Secure Boot feature you can see on the Security tab is a UEFI

protocol that secures the boot process by requiring properly signed software.

This includes boot software and software that supports specific, essential

components. (See “Device Drivers” a little later in this chapter.) Secure Boot

requires an Intel CPU, a UEFI BIOS, and an operating system designed for it,

such as Windows.

NOTE Secure Boot is an example of a tool that uses drive encryption.

Various types of encryption—essentially scrambling the information to make

it inaccessible to bad guys—secure all sorts of processes and data in modern

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