If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

David S. writes asks about recovering a FileVault-encrypted drive. He says it was encrypted and then reformatted. Is it possible to recover any data from this drive since it was previously encrypted ...

Using SSH and encrypting your data are the biggest steps organizations can take to ensure that all their private information remains safe and secure and away from prying eyes. However, there are ...

Last week I wrote a few tips about disk encryption, but I didn’t write about what to do with the startup disk on your Mac. I cannot think of any reason you shouldn’t encrypt your startup disk after ...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when a fully-encrypted system disk was something only for people with money to burn. You bought a special disk controller which performed hardware-based ...

As happens from time to time, somebody has spotted a feature in Windows 10 that isn’t actually new and has largely denounced it as a great privacy violation. The Intercept has written that if you have ...

Advances in threat-detection and data encryption have created a demand for software firms like WinMagic and Cypherix, whose packages can protect individual files or entire disks. You can even encrypt ...

In last week’s column, I explained the use and benefit (and some of the drawbacks) of turning on full-disk encryption (FDE) with Apple’s built-in FileVault 2. Readers had a few questions—I answered ...