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 ...

I’ve been using various incarnations of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption software for almost as long as I’ve been a Mac user. I won’t go into PGP’s long ...

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 ...

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 ...

About a year and a half ago, I reviewed the initial release of PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) for Mac (see “Securing Your Disk with PGP Whole Disk Encryption,” 31 October 2008). At the time, this ...

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 ...

The increasing use of laptops, netbooks and tablets coupled with a growing tendency to put sensitive personal and corporate data on computers that are easily and frequently lost or stolen has prompted ...

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 ...

So in our business we have various agencies that like to impose rules/regulations/etc on us. The newest one is all workstations must be whole disk encrypted (okay fine enough). Also all servers must ...

Researchers with Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have found a flaw that renders disk encryption systems useless if an intruder has physical access to your computer – say in ...

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 ...