Laptops, external drives, and USB sticks are especially vulnerable to data theft, but with Windows and a few tools, you can protect them using encryption.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, File Explorer automatically encrypts files that are moved to an encrypted folder. This setting applies only to files moved within a volume.

Have a private document on your desktop OS? Here's how to keep it secure on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

AES-256 encryption happens locally before anything uploads, so even if someone hacks your cloud account, they won't have much use for the files.

How to Encrypt a File Using OpenSSL. Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that ...

In addition to Windows Vista Ultimate's fancy-pants dual-partition security technology, BitLocker (which I didn't have the hardware to try out, dammit), you can also encrypt individual files right ...

Learn to secure multiple documents by encrypting compressed files on various OSes using a password.

Want to encrypt files on your Mac using FileVault but not sure how? Let's find out what FileVault disk encryption is, how it works, and how to use it on a Mac.