mores

For some reason or other, you might want to allow access to certain posts only to certain people. You can use password-protection on Pages and Posts, but those need to be set individually. 
It’s far simpler to just write a Post, specify a category and all posts in that category are password protected. Or you might decide to protect a lot of old posts. 
Imagine a family blog where certain posts are only visible to people who know the birthday of your first child, or remember your pet’s name. 
Cat-Pass is not for super-sensitive information, it’s for casual use.

Cat-Pass

Cat-Pass lets you password-protect categories. Caution: deactivating the plugin will render your protected posts visible again.

drawski

This plugin restricts access to your media files (jpg, png, gif, bmp) in original size for anyone but admin. This may be helpful for anyone who uses some plugins to add watermarks for smaller image sizes and wants to keep an option to regenerate them form the original without exposing it to the world.

Protect Original Images

WordPress plugin to make your images in original size not exposed to the world.

Cat-Pass vs Protect Original Images