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 ...

Open source initiative aims to offer enterprise security feature without vendor lock-in Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a popular approach to encrypting data at the storage layer, beefing up ...

Disk encryption is absolute magic to most non-mathematicians. And like any complex technology, it leads to uncomfortable questions. Does encrypting a disk make it less likely that data can be ...

One that always comes up: Were the systems’ disks fully encrypted? Sometimes the answer is “Yes”, but plenty of organizations have yet to make the leap to full disk encryption.

The DigiSafe DiskCrypt is a 1.8-inch hard disk enclosure that provides strong, pre-boot encryption for anything on the disk--but it could cost more than the disk itself.

Android users can still switch on disk encryption in the settings menu, but contrary to what Google said when Lollipop was first released, it won’t be the default setting.

“For device implementations supporting full-disk encryption and with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) crypto performance above 50MiB/sec, the full-disk encryption MUST be enabled by default at the ...

To access a system locked with full disk encryption, the user is prompted, after turning on the device but before it boots up fully, to enter that password or phrase.

At rest encryption can be an important part of system-hardening, yet many administrators who enable it, whether on workstations or servers, may end up with a false sense of security if they don't ...

New ransomware uses disk-level encryption to hold your computer hostage Ransomware is getting even more devious with Petya, which goes after your master boot record to encrypt the whole drive.

One that always comes up: Were the systems’ disks fully encrypted? Sometimes the answer is “Yes”, but plenty of organizations have yet to make the leap to full disk encryption.