Lion's FileVault 2 can be used to protect your data by encrypting your Mac's hard drive. Interested in using FileVault 2, but don't know where to start? Macworld senior contributor Glenn Fleishman ...

If you're wondering how FileVault disk encryption for OS X will work with your existing drive setup, and more, MacFixIt has answers.

If you use Macs for business, you should be familiar with FileVault. Apple’s built-in disk encryption system for macOS can help protect corporate data.

FileVault 2 is a huge improvement over the original FileVault implementation, offering whole disk encryption with no noticeable performance penalty. The only downside is that every account on the ...

When Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduced full disk encryption, called FileVault 2, it was a huge improvement over the original FileVault, which only encrypts a user's home folder. And because of the ...

Among the topics discussed at the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress was FileVault, the encryption technology in OS X which might be described as "security for the rest of us." Apple touts ...

FileVault 2 affects your whole disk, and has some scary elements, chiefly that your files are completely unrecoverable if you ever forget your password and lose your disk Recovery Key.

FileVault 2 offers immense benefits for Apple enterprise customers with almost no downsides to IT or cause any end-user disruption.

FileVault Problems — Although FileVault sounds good in theory, it suffers from some serious design flaws. The most serious is that it’s an all-or-nothing protection of your Home folder, and only your ...

OS X: FileVault does a great job of protecting your Mac. Every time you boot up, it asks for your password. If you're troubleshooting or providing remote support, though, entering it every time is ...

If necessary, you can restart a FileVault-enabled Mac and have it automatically unlock the volume and load the operating system.

FileVault 2 is a feature of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion that provides a way to encrypt a full disk drive so that it can only be used by those who know a password ... until now, that is. Passware, a company ...