From the course: Security Tips: Protecting Sensitive Information

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Encrypted disks and disk images

Encrypted disks and disk images

From the course: Security Tips: Protecting Sensitive Information

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Encrypted disks and disk images

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- [Instructor] While we can encrypt individual files, we often want to work with more than one file securely. And handling many individually protected or encrypted files quickly becomes tedious. To avoid this, we can encrypt the disk that files are stored on instead, wrapping up any number of regular files in a secure container. This ensures that all the files on a given disk are protected and that we don't have to deal with securing each file individually. Especially when it comes to securing our own information, encrypted disks and disk images are very useful tools. All of the major desktop operating systems support encrypting the entire boot disk, and they also support encrypting other disks like internal hard drives, USB thumb drives and external direct attached hard drives. This makes full disk encryption extremely accessible and widely available, and that means that now using it as a best practice for ensuring data…

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