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OS X Support Essentials 10.11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X El Capitan
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OS X Support Essentials 10.11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X El Capitan

by Kevin M. White, Gordon Davisson
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
936 pages
23h 59m
English
Peachpit Press
Content preview from OS X Support Essentials 10.11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X El Capitan

Lesson 10Manage FileVault

GOALS

Understand how FileVault helps protect your data

Enable FileVault protection

Recover a FileVault system when all passwords are lost

Although third-party solutions for full-system volume encryption exist for OS X, these solutions often exhibit issues whenever Apple updates hardware or software. Many third-party full-system volume encryption schemes may stop working during updates, leaving users stranded, with no way to reach their encrypted data.

Apple engineers decided to take this problem into their own hands and introduced a new version of FileVault (sometimes called FileVault 2). In this lesson, you will learn how FileVault protects the system volume and how to turn on this protection. You will also ...

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