Enable disk encryption for Mac OSX
Disk encryption would guard the personal and client information from the hands of an attacker, the attacker would need your personal key or iCloud account credentials to decrypt your hard drive, making it much harder to gain any data in case an attacker has access to your drive.
Encryption would make the data look like an alphabet soup
(don’t worry, it will still be readable for you):
Your data: Encrypted data:
Enabling FileVault 🔐
- We would like to access System Preferences:
2. Select “Security & Privacy”:
3. Select “FileVault” from the top and click the lock on the bottom-left corner to insert your password (for the current user logged in):
4. Select “Turn On FileVault…”:
5. It will ask you to validate your credentials using iCloud (I wouldn’t select the 2nd option since we tend to forget or lose the recovery key, making your data unrecoverable in a situation where the operating system gets corrupted):
6. After entering the credentials and validating, the disk will start encrypting:
FileVault does not interfere with backups being created for Time Machine:
Time Machine backups are not encrypted by default, you have to opt-in.
Just check "Encrypt backup disk" in the Time Machine disk selection settings if you would like encrypted backups:
