A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive ...

Tech guru Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how to password-protect files or folders in the cloud and on file-sharing platforms like Microsoft Word, OneDrive and Google Drive.

4] Stop Protection for password-protected files In case a file is password protected, you can remove protection from the document. Here are the steps to do that: First, open the problematic ...

However, despite the risk of malware-infected password-protected files, most organizations do not block them at the email gateway because of the potential impacts this can have on productivity.