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What do you do when you need to perform computations on large data sets while preserving their confidentiality? In other words, you would like to gather analytics, for example, on user data, without ...

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 ...

You probably store all kinds of sensitive information on your personal computer – or your smartphone, for that matter. For good measure, you may even store your data in the cloud. And like the ...

Most organizations that rely on computing systems understand the need to protect data against cyber-attacks and data breaches by using encryption. Unfortunately, even the most well-informed and ...

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 ...

Data is the new gold. Today, all businesses, whether large or small, collect, store, receive or transmit data to a certain degree. And irrespective of which device, technology, or process is used to ...

Data at rest encryption is about as far from a cutting-edge topic as one can get. But while encrypting inactive data that is stored digitally is regarded by most security professionals as a must have, ...

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Swiss public-sector data protection officers say controlling the geographic location of cloud data isn’t enough: governments must hold the encryption keys too. Data residency is no longer enough. As ...

Advances in threat-detection and data encryption have created a demand for software firms like WinMagic and Cypherix, whose packages can protect individual files or entire disks. You can even encrypt ...