So I just got the email that my work is now requiring full disk encryption. I have never done full disk encryption on the Mac and, for whatever reason, this makes me a little apprehensive. Is there ...

If you are installing Lion on a RAID array or other custom drive setup, you may not be able to enable FileVault and other advanced volume management features. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

Passware, a vendor of forensics tools for recovering data for law enforcement, has issued a warning that its forensics tools can bypass the security of FileVault disk encryption in Mac OS X if the ...

Apple's FileVault technology is a method of automatically encrypting your files so you do not have to worry about data theft should your system be stolen. In its first iteration FileVault was just ...

In last week’s column, I explained the use and benefit (and some of the drawbacks) of turning on full-disk encryption (FDE) with Apple’s built-in FileVault 2. Readers had a few questions—I answered ...

“This is an exciting day. I'm very proud of what my technical team has achieved in order to further the AlertBoot security horizon,” said Tim Maliyil, founder and CEO of AlertBoot. “While Macs ...

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. If you run a business on Macs (and many ...

Last week I wrote a few tips about disk encryption, but I didn’t write about what to do with the startup disk on your Mac. I cannot think of any reason you shouldn’t encrypt your startup disk after ...

Encrypting your Mac’s entire hard drive—making it unreadable to anyone who doesn’t have the correct encryption key (a sort of software passcode)—is a perfectly marvelous idea to maintain the privacy ...