1. At least one non-transitory machine readable medium comprising one or more instructions that when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: receive a request from a process to access data in a system; determine whether the data is in a virtualized protected area of memory in the system, wherein the virtualized protected area of memory is a secure storage area and wherein the data is stored unencrypted; and responsive to determining that the data is not in a virtualized protected area of memory, allow access to the data; or responsive to determining that the data is in a virtualized protected area of memory, determine whether the process is a trusted process; and allow access to the data based on a determination that the data is in the virtualized protected area of memory and the process is a trusted process.