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 ...

Apple has used the FileVault name to cover full-disk encryption (often abbreviated FDE) since Mac OS X 10.7 Lion back in 2011. For years, FileVault used a read/write intensive encryption method that ...

Full-disk encryption (FDE) is a low-effort way to ensure that if someone were to get ahold of one of your drives while unmounted or a Mac while powered down, the contents on the drive would be ...

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 ...

Encryption is ubiquitous in modern computing, from the padlock icon in a web browser showing a secure connection to the end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp. If these exchanges are worth protecting (and ...

In his review of macOS 26 Tahoe at Ars Technica, Andrew Cunningham writes: One other tweak to the install process is the default behavior for Apple’s FileVault disk encryption. If you sign in to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Without the macOS update released this week, Apple’s disk encryption can be easily defeated by connecting a specially crafted device to a locked Macbook. The attack is possible because devices ...

Disk encryption is absolute magic to most non-mathematicians. And like any complex technology, it leads to uncomfortable questions. Does encrypting a disk make it less likely that data can be ...

Apple's Mac computers are generally considered more secure than Windows PCs, thanks to the company's tight control over hardware and software. Whether you use a MacBook, iMac, or Mac Mini, built-in ...

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 ...