One way you can protect your files and yourself is to encrypt any Microsoft Word documents that contain privileged information. Word's encryption feature makes it so that anyone who opens the document ...

It's a little different in Word 2007. Start by clicking the Office button (in the upper left corner), point to Prepare, and then click Encrypt Document.

Because Google Drive also stores documents on your hard drive, you may want to protect those too. Microsoft Word has a security feature that enables you to encrypt a document using a password.

I have a number of spreadsheets that I use to store sensitive information. Usernames, passwords, etc. These documents are password protected themselves, but if they're anything like "protected ...

Journalists accumulate many documents in the course of their investigations. The problem is not only how to manage that information and have it always available and organized, but also how to protect ...