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There’s been a steep rise in the number of data leak incidents. Many agencies are directly tapping into the servers of major internet companies to access users’ personal information without their ...

Online privacy has started to sound like an oxymoron! Every e-mail (confidential or not) you send is sent as a plain text and if intercepted, it will just be a sitting duck with no protection ...

A sound IT security strategy is a must for any DevOps or infrastructure-as-code initiative. Ansible Vault, a feature within the Ansible automation tool, can help IT teams manage sensitive data, also ...

Notepad text files are very handy and useful for noting things down. But have you ever thought about the security of the notepad files? Security is a must, and a Notepad text file offers no security ...

Putting sensitive data in email messages or cloud storage should give you the heebie-jeebies, but a good dose of cryptography can give you peace of mind. Pretty Good ...

Cryptography is the art of encrypting and decrypting data. Encryption is the process of encoding unencrypted data, or plaintext, into encrypted data, or ciphertext, to disguise the data and make it ...

SQL Server 2005's engine-based, data-encryption functions protect confidential information from unauthorized access and disclosure, and offer native key management as a bonus. Reports of more than 2 ...

Imagine opening your front door wide and inviting the world to listen in on your most private conversations. Unthinkable, right? Yet, in the digital realm, people inadvertently leave doors ajar, ...

Key takeaways Start with the data that would hurt most if exposed, then apply encryption where it reduces the biggest business risk. Protect both stored data and data in transit, because laptops, ...