Head up: MacOS 27 (beta, I know) - FileVault isn't detected by HIP/OPSWAT
I'm not asking for a fix, because beta-is-beta. I'm merely posting so that people might be aware.
Normal HIP check looking for disk encryption, there are two stages to the check. The first looks for which disk-encryption product is being used, and after that is detected, it iterates into the encryption status for each detected volume.
On my everyday machine, HIP finds that FileVault is installed, and then it finds that each volume is encrypted, as expected.
On our Mac admin's test machine running MacOS 27, the HIP check doesn't even detect that FileVault is installed/running (of course, the OS itself reports all is well - MacOS knows about itself!).
There is an issue with the underlying software - OPSWAT - which has yet to be resolved. The word on the street is that "public beta" support for MacOS 27 from OPSWAT is targeted for end of September 2026, with full production support targeted for the end of October 2027.
Posted Aug 13, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC