I was considering purchasing hard drive encryption software for our consultants' laptops in case they were lost or stolen. Does anyone have any recommendations or tips on what to look for in a ...

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: ...

A blog post published Thursday revealed that in stark contrast to the iPhone's iOS, Qualcomm-powered Android devices store the disk encryption keys in software.

The information security industry, with all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the highest on this list is full-disk encryption, which security experts ...

Holding down the Shift key while restarting normally disables some potentially problematic software, such as third-party kernel extensions, but since Whole Disk Encryption relies on such an extension ...

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 ...

If you’re a Windows user, you may have been surprised to learn that from an update in May 2024 onward your system drive will ...

Disk encryption software hides in the part of the hard disk that initializes the hardware. When you start the machine you provide your password to the encryption software before it loads Windows ...