Regulators and security strategists recommend encrypting data at rest, but few organisations do it, and most get it wrong. Good thing there are bigger problems to tackle first.

How to Encrypt and Decrypt a File. Encrypting files on your computer helps to secure your data from unauthorized access. Microsoft Windows features the native ability to encrypt files and folders ...

Encrypting your computer is basic security hygiene. Here's how to encrypt your hard drive on both Mac and Windows computers.

Your personal privacy depends on your awareness, tech controls that allow you to decide what to share, and public policies that take personal privacy into account.

Encrypting data in today's day and age is pretty important if you want to keep things secret without the threat of someone else viewing things such as passwords, personably identifiable information or ...

Encrypting only files is far less effective than encompassing whole disks and partitions. Even if all of your files are encrypted, swap files, fragments of deleted files, and other operating-system ...

Encrypting data before it goes up to the cloud enables you to encrypt it in transit across the network and when it arrives and is stored on the cloud service provider’s systems.

This article is part of a series on data privacy that explores who collects your data, what and how they collect, who sells and buys your data, what they all do with it, and what you can do about it.