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. But what ...

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 ...

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 ...

FileVault is an additional security feature included with MacOS that encrypts all the files contained within your system. By using the disk encryption component, all the information sitting on your ...

It’s hard thing to discover that a loved one is incapacitated or passed away, and the Mac or Macs they left behind can’t be unlocked to retrieve photos, important financial or legal information, or ...

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 ...

FileVault is an excellent tool to protect your Mac’s drive when it’s shut down. When FileVault is active, someone powering up your machine cannot gain access through any means to the encrypted data on ...

“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 have a modern Mac, there’s almost no reason not to use FileVault, the all-disk encryption that’s built in to OS X. It doesn’t slow the computer down, it keeps your data safe and – if the ...

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 ...

There are some subtle incompatibilities between Lion's FileVault 2 full disk encryption and its disk repair and restore mechanisms. These issues may particularly affect those who use encrypted Time ...