Laptops, external drives, and USB sticks are especially vulnerable to data theft, but with Windows and a few tools, you can protect them using encryption.

Here's how to set up a virtual encrypted disk in TrueCrypt to protect specific important files.

Google Drive may not let you encrypt individual Google Docs, but there are still ways to protect your security and privacy. Here's how to keep your Docs from prying eyes.

Google Drive may not let you encrypt individual Google Docs, but there are still ways to protect your security and privacy. Here's how to keep your Docs from prying eyes.

Open the document in question and head to File > Protect Document > Encrypt with Password. Pick a password for the file and make sure you remember it—if you forget, that file will be lost forever.

Open the document in question and head to File > Protect Document > Encrypt with Password. Pick a password for the file and make sure you remember it—if you forget, that file will be lost forever.

Using a plug-in for the popular Windows text editor, Notepad++, you can easily encrypt selected text and entire text files.

Encryption in Microsoft Office 2013/2016 Encrypting files in Microsoft Office is quite simple. Go to File> Info> Protect Document. Choose Encrypt with Password, enter a password and then click on ...

How to Merge Encrypted PDF Files. Small businesses working with sensitive PDF documents may choose to encrypt those documents. An encrypted PDF is password protected, which means you cannot open ...

But file sharing is another matter. You still can't encrypt files using the company's documents-editing-and-sharing service Google Drive. And the same goes for many similar services.