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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...