Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a ...

Encrypt a disk from the Finder This new full-disk encryption feature is well hidden in Mountain Lion.

Want to keep your important files hidden? Here's how to encrypt your entire hard drive with DiskCryptor.

One of the more interesting–and less visible–new features in Mountain Lion is the ability to encrypt almost any disk. OS X has long offered the ability to encrypt your startup disk using Apple ...

Here's how to set up a virtual encrypted disk in TrueCrypt to protect specific important files.

How to Format an Encrypted Disk. Many businesses protect confidential data stored on computers, particularly laptops, by encrypting the hard drives. This works well until you lose or forget the ...

Encrypting a disk means that it can only be mounted by those with the password inside of OS X. It's a great way to ensure that the content is only viewable by certain users.

Disk Utility will prompt you to pick a folder. Select the folder you want to encrypt, name it whatever you want, and choose 256 AES encryption. Disk Utility will prompt you for a password.

How to Encrypt a USB Flash Drive in Disk Utility Before proceeding, make sure you've copied any data on the USB flash drive to a safe location, like your Mac's internal disk.