When you are done, don’t forget to unmount the encrypted folder to be protected again. On Windows In contrast to Mac operating system, Windows lacks features to encrypt or password protect files.

In this excerpt from his massive "Mac Security Bible," Joe Kissell explores the theory and practice of encrypting files on your Mac's hard drive.

The process of encrypting files is easy, and I’ll to show you step-by-step how to do it. First, open up Disk Utility. Use spotlight search (upper right-hand corner or spacebar+command) to find it.

USB drives, external HDDs, and memory cards—remains the go-to for transferring and backing up data. But these devices are also among the easies ...

How to Create Encrypted Zip Files on Mac. If you use a Mac computer in your small business, you probably have sensitive information and store private data in files and folders on your computer.

Other options, for Mac or Windows users, are to use Truecrypt to encrypt your files or use password-protected zip files before storing them on Google Drive (or Dropbox or elsewhere) for the ...

For Mac users, Jetico has come up with an easy alternative for simple encryption of files, with their BestCrypt Container Encryption software which is claimed to be fully compatible with Mac ...

Apple latest Mac operating system, OS X 10.7 Lion includes FileVault 2, the latest version of Apple’s method of file protection. FileVault 2 is designed to encrypt your hard drive.