If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this.

Likewise, full disk encryption only offers broad audit logs, meaning it’s impossible to review activity or potential threats on a granular level using full disk encryption alone. What is file-based ...

Many encryption programs require a huge amount of disk overhead during the encrypting/decrypting process, unless the process is all done in memory. For example, encrypting a 100MB file might ...

Select the folder you want to encrypt, name it whatever you want, and choose 256 AES encryption. Disk Utility will prompt you for a password. This is important.

Choose a maximum size for your folder; I use 4.7GB, so even if I fill up the disk image, I can still burn it to a DVD-R. Under Encryption, choose AES-128 (the only encrypted option).

File encryption protects only the files and folders you specify, of course. Typically you’ll set up a folder or virtual drive to encrypt any files saved inside it automatically; as long as you ...

Encryption is the matter of safety, I've always said. If you want to keep movies, pictures and other files under a safe lock, choose a password protective software from our guide.

The main difference in the degree of security between them is that file-based encryption only protects your user document and media files. By contrast, full-disk encryption encrypts those plus core OS ...

Read “How to Use TrueCrypt to Encrypt Your Sensitive Documents” for a step-by-step explanation of how to set up a basic virtual encrypted disk that will make your important files unreadable to ...

Not long ago, there were multiple options for encrypting files and folders on a Mac. TrueCrypt, a mostly anonymous free and open-source encryption tool, abruptly stopped development in May 2014.

7-Zip: For Quick Encryption Tasks . I turn to 7-Zip when I need to encrypt individual files or folders quickly. It's not exclusively an encryption tool as it's primarily a file compression utility ...