A new ransomware strain is implementing a troubling but so far relatively rarely used technique to encrypt data in a target environment. Instead of encrypting files on endpoint systems like most ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as "cybersecurity," for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

Ransomware is getting even more devious with Petya, which goes after your master boot record to encrypt the whole drive. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

Full disk encryption is the most commonly used encryption strategy in practice today for data at rest, but does that mean it’s sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to your data? The short answer: ...

But what about data in motion? That’s where column-level encryption pays off to provide end-to-end encryption. With TDE, each data page is encrypted when written to disk and is decrypted when read ...

Most organizations that rely on computing systems understand the need to protect data against cyber-attacks and data breaches by using encryption. Unfortunately, even the most well-informed and ...

Dell on Wednesday launched Dell Data Protection Encryption software. Targeted to SMBs and enterprise customers, Dell claims it provides flexible, manageable and auditable endpoint encryption while ...

Disk encryption is absolute magic to most non-mathematicians. And like any complex technology, it leads to uncomfortable questions. Does encrypting a disk make it less likely that data can be ...

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

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 ...