Password protect your Mac

Are your Mac, files, documents, notes and other items all protected? Add passwords to them for security

Passwords are a pain to use, and beyond a few favourites they are hard to remember. However, they are also useful for protecting your Mac and your files. For example, they prevent other people from accessing things and perhaps seeing something you wouldn’t want them to see, like personal emails, financial information, web browsing habits and so on.

Here we take a look at some of the ways to protect your Mac and files, such as setting a password to lock your Mac when you step away, protecting work documents, encrypting not only the disk but also your backups and external drives, as well as safeguarding the ZIP files you email and more.

It is good practice to password-protect everything on your Mac and it is all very easy to set up