It's important to keep data secure at all times, whether at rest, in use or in transit. Two popular data obfuscation methods are data masking and data encryption. While both methods transform data for ...

Data masking is one of the ways to protect confidential information from unauthorized use. When masking, data is replaced either with arbitrary symbols or (more often) with fictitious data. The array ...

Encryption is the process of converting readable data, known as plaintext, into a jumbled string of data called ciphertext. Encryption algorithms use mathematical operations to scrabble data, making ...

When talking about security, the first thing we inevitably think about is 'how to prevent theft.' Strengthening passwords, ...

Whether in the in-house data center or in the cloud, IT is moving toward a converged backup and disaster recovery environment based on storage drives. One common theme is that, in backup files, there ...

An end-to-end strategy must factor in all the ways the data can be input and output, as well as how it’s stored Here’s a sobering prediction: One-third of all adults in the United States will have ...

Mobile app data encryption secures user records and network streams from unauthorized access using verified SDKs and Keystore ...

The problem with most forms of encryption being used today is that once data is encrypted, it becomes frozen or fixed in place—meaning it can’t be operated on or “processed” without first decrypting ...

One of the biggest stumbling blocks for companies contemplating entrusting a cloud-computing vendor with their data is the risk of unintended data exposure. A lot of data is sensitive. It might ...

On the surface, encryption has always seemed a no-brainer. Why expose confidential information to prying eyes when you could protect it by scrambling it? But even though encryption technologies have ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new advocacy initiative directly targeting Apple, Google, and other tech giants to demand broader adoption of data encryption and more transparent ...