Laptop Encryption Software – Encrypt your sensitive data
Why is laptop encryption more important than your normal desktop PC? Your laptop is portable and can be lost easily! So if you have some sensitive files on your laptop, just choose one of the encryption software packages in my list below. Laptop encryption will make it possible to encrypt your data with password. Only you, who knows the password can access the files, which are encrypted.
Laptop data encryption is useful in the following cases:
- Prevent users from accessing files when your laptop gets stolen
- Special security policies for sensitive files of large enterprises or governments
- In case you have illegal documents and don't want your government to ever retreive the contents of them (I am not supporting this)
I have compiled a list of available software you can use to encrypt any laptop at my homepage here: Best Encryption Software Top 5
There are some important things you need to know when encrypting data. You should never forget the password! If you do forget it, there is absolutely no way to access the files anymore. If this wouldn't be the case the encryption software would not be secure. So you better remind this never forget your password.
The other thing is a laptop is actually the same as a desktop PC when it comes to encryption. This means you can use existing free and commercial encryption software described at the home page of this website here: Best Encryption Software
What is encryption exactly?
Encryption is a way to encode files with a special key, to access the files you need to decrypt using the encryption key. There are several algorithms which are used to encrypt files: AES, RSA, Serpent, Twofish and many more.
This is probably the most simple explanation I could give as a I'm not a specialist in encryption. For a more detailed explanation take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption