WD Security is a tool from Western Digital which allows you to add password protection to your hard drives or solid state drives.
With a simple installation of WD Security, these devices can be secured easily. Simply attach your Western Digital drive to a system. The main application will recognize the drives that it supports and display some details about it including the name, storage capacity and an icon.
Setting up a password for your drive is a simple task. The program will ask you to enter the same password twice to lock it. Lost and forgotten passwords cannot be retrieved, so make sure you keep it in a safe place. You can have WD Security provide you with a hint.
The level of security provided with WD Security is 256-bit AES encryption so you'll have some protection against anybody attempting to access important files on your storage media.
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from data encryption software without restrictions. WD Security 2.0.0.76 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.
Acronis True Image for Western Digital. GoodSync for WD. Install WD Discovery for Mac. WD Security for Mac. Product Firmware Product. If your product is not. WD Security lets you set password protection and hardware encryption and protect your files from unauthorized use or access. This installer - WD Drive Utilities and WD Security, are contained within the WD Drive Utilities and the WD Security zip files and installs custom Western Digital software for WD USB and FireWire enabled external hard drives under Macintosh computers.
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