Here’s why you should encrypt both laptops and desktops

The simple answer to this is: “just because you can”.

One of the issues with the rise in mobile device use (and I include laptops here) is that because people take the devices into the outside world, there much more likely to get lost, stolen, or damaged. In all three cases you have a situation where the device is going from a place where it has supervision by a trusted entity to some situation where you know not what could happen to it.

Encryption is the easiest way to protect yourself from an...