Full disk encryption is the most commonly used encryption strategy in practice today for data at rest, but does that mean it’s sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to your data? The short answer: ...

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about encryption and what the FBI terms its "Going Dark" problem---its inability to read the communications of surveillance targets because more and more ...

Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is one of the most effective ways to protect confidential data on laptops, but there's a dirty little secret that many FDE vendors don't mention: When an encrypted hard ...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when a fully-encrypted system disk was something only for people with money to burn. You bought a special disk controller which performed hardware-based ...

"Just encrypt it!" seems like a simple way to protect data, especially on laptops. It does protect data, but it's not necessarily so simple. Save time (and maybe your data!) with these practicals of ...

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 ...

Full disk-encryption is viewed by some enterprises as a cure all for laptop security. Many organizations have requirements that at least some systems be encrypted – especially those that are used by ...

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If a third-party disk encryption software is incompatible with the next Windows 10 Feature Update, it may cause the upgrade to crash. Let’s take a look at a typical scenario where you can encounter ...