Imagine you lose your work laptop on a commute. It holds 3 years of customer PII, internal product roadmaps, and access keys to your company's cloud infrastructure. Without full disk encryption enabled, anyone who finds the device can access every file in 10 minutes or less with a free bootable...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/andrewll/what-is-data-encryption-a-complete-2026-guide-for-developers-security-teams-578p)