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 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 ...

I recently received a new desktop at work. Your usual mid- to low-high range Dell Optiplex 7020. i7-4xxx CPU, 8GB RAM, 500GB hard drive. Nothing to call home about, but a far cry from the C2D laptop I ...

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 ...

But what about data in motion? That’s where column-level encryption pays off to provide end-to-end encryption. With TDE, each data page is encrypted when written to disk and is decrypted when read ...

Lock down your data without paying a performance penalty with Seagate s Momentus 5400 FDE.2 2.5-in. secure hard-disk drive with DriveTrust (see the figure). It incorporates full-disk, 128-bit Advanced ...

Kudos to the Department of Justice for chasing and charging mortgage scam perpetrators. But who know that type of case would lead to having the courts decide whether prosecutors can force defendants ...

Cryptographic is a Microsoft Windows Service that encrypts and decrypts your data during data access. In this way, security is provided to the data by encryption so that even if a hacker steals the ...

There are a few less obvious features for managing and manipulating your storage devices in the macOS Disk Utility. In the third part of our deep dive into Disk Utility, here's how to find and use ...