Introduction.

Further to my page offering a "how to" on encrypting emails, this page deals with encrypting files.

There are any number of reasons you may wish to encrypt individual files, for example, maybe you have sensitive customer data, perhaps a client list or cost price tables that if they fell into your competitors hands, would amount to a gold strike.

I will repeat here, it is my belief, all company laptops should have some form of encryption. Ideally, the whole drive should be encrypted, but that is ''not'' the subject of this page.

On this page, we're going to discuss how to encrypt individual files