Privacy advocates take note: Android’s full-disk encryption just got dramatically easier to defeat on devices that use chips from semiconductor maker Qualcomm ...

Let’s be honest for a moment: when it comes to cyber security habits, companies aren’t typically interested in investing the proper time, resources and infrastructure changes necessary to properly ...

Like some competing hypervisors, vSphere allows virtual hard disks to be encrypted. One of the most important things to understand about encryption in vSphere 6.5 is that virtual disk encryption and ...

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"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 ...

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 ...

Solid-state disks (SSDs) have changed the face of our electronic world, giving us faster, longer-lasting, reliable storage for our mobile devices, laptops, desktop computers, and even servers. But ...

I’ve lost count of the conversations I have had with IT people who are in almost panic over the rise in both quantity and effectiveness of ransomware attacks. Everyone wants to do what they can to ...

When I talk to large enterprises, they tend to be either deploying or planning to deploy PC encryption tools, especially for laptops. This is no longer a "nice to have;" it has become a "gotta have." ...

Full-disk encryption is often heralded as a panacea to the huge problems of data breaches and laptop thefts, and with good reason. Making the data on a laptop or other device unreadable makes the ...