Curious about the security of your documents in the cloud? You’re not alone. We recently received an email from Dana in Marietta, Ga., who is asking this, "I just read your article on saving documents ...

Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing it to the services that compute the answer? There is a ...

Alright. So, you’ve battened down the hatches of your company’s premises, to protect your employees and your information. Employees are required to create secret ...

Paytinel’s analysis of how encryption keeps payment data safe when it's sent and stored, lowers fraud risks, helps confirm identities, and makes payment systems more secure.

Microsoft has tried on a few occasions to use proprietary encryption algorithms rather than rely on industry-standard algorithms. The theory was that a closed-source proprietary algorithm was that ...

Modern encryption technologies enable modern systems to protect data while it is stored on a storage device, transferred over ...

Encryption is one of the best ways to prevent the type of terrible headaches that many high-profile companies have experienced with stolen data. Even if experienced hackers are able to penetrate a ...

Abrham Sorecha asked how to password-protect a folder. You can’t effectively password-protect a folder without encrypting it. And strictly speaking, you can’t ...

Proposed standards for protecting data on disk or tape are gathering steam within the IEEE and could be supported in products this year, according to proponents. Such standard technology could go a ...

The increasing amount of data we’re all generating is everywhere: in smartphones, laptops, thumb drives, and dozens of online services. How can we secure all of them against unwarranted access? We ...