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 ...

One of the more interesting–and less visible–new features in Mountain Lion is the ability to encrypt almost any disk. OS X has long offered the ability to encrypt your startup disk using Apple’s ...

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 ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as “cybersecurity,” for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

Securing data when it leaves an organisation is always a problem. Despite user education, a laptop can all too easily be left in a cab and, if not properly secure, information is left in the clear for ...

Linux admins have been urged to patch a high-risk, full-disk encryption (FDE) vulnerability impacting Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) encryption software and its crytpsetup programme, which could allow ...

The laptop you’re working on might cost only a few hundred bucks, but if you use it to work with sensitive data–especially personal or business-related information–the data it contains is worth far ...

As more companies disclose information losses and data theft, information technology companies have entered the market to sell products that encrypt entire hard drives. Those companies argue that ...

I just updated to Mountain Lion and noticed an option to encrypt my USB-connected Time Machine drive. So I did it. I have some sensitive data on here including bank information. Yes, I need it on here ...

Lost devices and data theft remain a major worry for enterprise IT firms. One way to protect against data loss is full-device encryption, now made easier to implement via self-encrypting hard drives ...