The data storage and security industry has long suffered from a lack of interoperability standards, and end users and computer resellers/integrators often bear the burden. Many practical and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disk encryption key storage To help prevent users from losing their data, it appears Lion will offer an option to store the encryption key with Apple, apparently as part of its MobileMe cloud service ...

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 ...

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 ...

Logan G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. Every week, there are new reports of data breaches at organizations of every type.

Shortly after the announcement of iOS 8 in 2014, Google made headlines by saying that it would make full-device encryption mandatory for new Android devices running version 5.0. It then made more ...

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, ...

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