As a system administrator, you probably already know how important it is to encrypt your disks.
If your laptop were to be stolen, even a novice hacker would be able to extract the information contained on the disks.
All it takes is a simple USB stick with a LiveCD on it and everything would be stolen.
Luckily for you, there are ways for you to prevent this from happening : by encrypting data stored on your disks.
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