Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Encrypt Your Data
By encrypting data, you can ensure that a malicious user who has physical access to your
Mac Pro cannot read the files in your user account. This means that your data appears as
gibberish until it is decrypted by entering your user account password. Your password pro-
tects your user account from unauthorized access, but a sophisticated user can still access
your data by using special tools. If you have sensitive, secret, or private files in your user ac-
count, you can protect that data from such access by encrypting it.
Encrypt Your Data
Follow steps
1
to
6
in the previous section, “
Configure Location Services
,
” to display
and unlock the Security & Privacy preferences.
Click the
FileVault
tab.
Click
Turn On FileVault
.
If you have multiple users, Mac Pro prompts you to enable FileVault for the other ac-
counts.
