If needed, we will upgrade it from Windows 7 as long as it is a University-owned device. Your computer must be running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise editions.This is a special microchip that enables your device to support advanced security features. TPM chip works with BitLocker to help protect user data and to ensure that a computer has not been tampered with while the system was offline. For best results, your computer should be equipped with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip.Services can assist you with enabling BitLocker drive encryption. To provide additional security for sensitive data stored on your University-owned Windows 10 computer, I.T. BitLocker drive encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned computers. Data on a lost or stolen computer is vulnerable to unauthorized access, either by running a software-attack tool against it or by transferring the computer's hard disk to a different computer.