Losing your laptop can be expensive in three ways. First, you’ll spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to replace the hardware. Second, you’ll suffer the time and aggravation of restoring your data, ...

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 ...

Last April, McAfee and Datamonitor released a report called “Datagate: The Next Inevitable Corporate Disaster?” The report held some disturbing statistics about data breaches: * More than 60% of ...

I remember this announcement back in 2005, when Seagate first announced that they would release a hard drive with full disk encryption (FDE). Well, they now have the Momentus FDE line of notebook ...

The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid ...

The latest version of Ubuntu is out today, bringing new and updated features including a new App Center for finding, downloading, and installing software, support for storing encryption keys for ...

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 ...

Some software-based encryption doesn’t protect data if PCs are in “sleep” or “hibernate” mode. Given the start up time of Windows, many users take full advantage of sleep/hibertate modes so this is a ...

I need to setup full disk encryption for some financial services laptops. I can get encrypted HDs from Lenovo, or I can use software (what I'm leaning towards). The two main contenders are bitlocker ...

I've used a few things, but primarily in large enterprise. These small businesses have 24-hour support, they can call for a recovery key if needed. Cost is a concern, but not a prohibitive one. Each ...