Conclusion On Bios password - A BIOS password can help you to keep your data saved but it does not ensure you the security of content you kept in your laptop.
I am a profesional site engineer and often need to keep my data and projects secure in my laptop. I want them to be secure of leaking out to any other my colleague or companion. Thus I thought for the BIOS password. Am I picking the right wqay to keep my content safe in my laptop. Can BIOS password help me to keep my projects secure? .
BIOS is a kind of software situated as a chip in the motherboard of your computer. BIOS been present in the computer from the pre-initial stage of it's use even before you turn on your computer. The password you configure for your BIOS is required by you whenever you turn your computer on in order to boot your installed operating system. This password can not provide you fully reliable security for your data being hacked. It can only help you for the security of your content until your hardrive remain in the same computer in which you have configured the BIOS password.
Your data is very likely too be stolen by anyone if he/she is physically accessed with your computer. It can be happened if the hard-drive of your computer is replaced and entered in any other computer. The other machine obviously won’t demand for BIOS password and your data can be stolen.
Even sometime the BIOS password security can be break by reset your BIOS. It is possible by the accessment of a jumper to your computer’s motherboard. Another idea to hack your content secured inside the BIOS password is to place your computer’s hard drive into a USB drive enclosure and access it with the desired machine asan external drive.
That's the reasons for BIOS password is not capable to provide you security for keeping your content private or confidential. This means a BIOS password is not a reliable way to kep your data secured. If you are dependent on your BIOS password for security of your content you should find any othe potential way for this purpose.
A viable way to protect your data from hacking is to encrypt the data.Hard-drives are configured for the encryption of data while writing it and it ask for the password (when you configure it)at the time of booting. Nobody can access with your data un til the configured password is entered, does not matter where your hard-drive is placed. I am using the same trick for keeping my data safe.
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