Full disk encryption is the most commonly used encryption strategy in practice today for data at rest, but does that mean it’s sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to your data? The short answer: ...

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 ...

Let’s be honest for a moment: when it comes to cyber security habits, companies aren’t typically interested in investing the proper time, resources and infrastructure changes necessary to properly ...

During the Information Lifecycle, data must be encrypted when stored on your devices or sent to someone else. With laptops and mobile devices now commonplace, most of us are used to taking our ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reader Bob Ross is interested in encryption. In anything-but-cryptic fashion he writes: I want to quickly encrypt one folder at the end of the day. Disk Utility is too much trouble and amazingly doesn ...

Windows 11/10 offers an in-built encryption solution — BitLocker — which makes sure the drive if used anywhere else, will not be readable. However, like many other solutions, it is a proprietary ...