FileVault is easy to set up and use. However, if you own a Mac that runs on Apple Silicon or has the Apple T2 Security Chip, it already has the FileVault encryption turned on.

The Problem with Disk Encryption. Here's a dirty little secret: ... and you're set. As you prepare, make sure you have all scenarios of the forgotten pre-boot password or lost token covered.

Advantages of full disk encryption. Although full disk encryption (FDE) is not a holistic approach to security, there are some key benefits it can offer. First and foremost, it’s simple to deploy. It ...

Finally, run the "SSDLock" application -- which is supplied on a USB -- to set the encryption and specify usernames and passwords. Then you reboot the system. And that's it.

FileVault 2 clarifications. FileVault 2 encrypts data at the hard drive level. Programs that run on your Mac see the data as if it has no encryption.

Creating Disk Images in OS X is relatively simple and an easy way to package items either for presentation, portability over electronic media, or encryption to protect data on otherwise ...

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 ...

re: that whole-disk encryption is only for data "at rest," Understood. But the way I do it is I set my screensaver to lock. and my macbook pro's screen display to lock after 1 minute. I also turned ...

“The gold standard in disk encryption is end-to-end encryption, where only you can unlock your disk. This is what most companies use, and it seems to work well,” says Matthew Green, professor ...