One of the more interesting–and less visible–new features in Mountain Lion is the ability to encrypt almost any disk. OS X has long offered the ability to encrypt your startup disk using Apple’s ...

Microsoft’s full-disk encryption feature is not being widely used, even where it is part of the Windows operating system, according to a new survey released by security vendor Opswat. Microsoft added ...

There is an abundance of free encryption tools, but if you’re running Windows, BitLocker is the only tool most people need, ...

Lost devices and data theft remain a major worry for enterprise IT firms. One way to protect against data loss is full-device encryption, now made easier to implement via self-encrypting hard drives ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as “cybersecurity,” for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

WinMagic and Fujitsu today announced that their products together provide comprehensive, enterprise-class and manageable security for data-at-rest. WinMagic and Fujitsu today announced that their ...

The threat is a big one. An estimated 750,000 laptops were stolen last year, up from 600,000 in 2003, according to Absolute Software, a maker of tools to retrieve lost or stolen laptops. The threat of ...

Seagate Technology announced last week its intention to ship a security technology for some of its hard-disk drives next year, which will make it more difficult for notebook PC thieves to read stolen ...

If you think that encrypting your laptop’s hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University. They’ve discovered a way ...

In my last post, I talked about some of the tools that claim to recover your stolen laptop. This time I want to review another series of tools that can be useful protection as well: doing whole-disk ...

Drexel manages Microsoft BitLocker on Windows devices and Apple FileVault on macOS to encrypt all internal disk drives. Full disk encryption protects the contents of laptops, desktops, and tablet PCs ...