Encryption

Using Encryption to Safeguard Your Content Management System

Marketing professionals and IT departments should have equal urgency when securing their business technologies. For instance, content management systems became immensely safer with encryption. Biztech experts across teams must collaborate to develop a secure strategy to protect digital assets in CMS environments. These are the best practices and methods to follow for implementation. 

The Digital Privacy Paradox: Encrypted Messaging App ‘Session’ Solves What Others Won’t

In the past decade, instant messaging has become the backbone of modern communication, seamlessly connecting billions of users worldwide. From casual conversations to mission-critical business discussions, these platforms are deeply embedded in our daily lives. However, as their user bases have soared, so have concerns about privacy and security. Many of the most popular messaging apps, despite offering encryption, still expose users to significant privacy risks. The issue isn't just about securing message content—it's about the vast amount of metadata these platforms collect.

WinMagic survey Finds Most Companies Won’t be Ready for EU GDPR Legislation on 25th May

Ontario, Canada - April 25th, 2018 - With just one month until the new EU General Data Protection Regulation Legislation (GDPR) comes into force, data security company WinMagic, has today released the findings of research that suggests many companies will not be ready when it takes effect on May 25th, 2018. 62% of IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) surveyed describe themselves as ‘confident’ in the build-up, with 1 in 5 (18%) saying they are nervous.

Why Your Website Needs SSL Certificate Security

Many people believe that website security is only important where personal information, and credit card transactions are involved. This could not be further from the truth. Your website needs security regardless of whether it is an e-commerce site, or blog. SSL is the industry standard in website protection and millions of website owners use it to protect their customer’s details and online transactions.

WatchGuard’s New Fireboxes Chew Through Encrypted Traffic 94 Percent Faster Than Competitors

15 August 2017 – WatchGuard® Technologies has announced hardware upgrades to its Firebox® M Series to handle the rapid proliferation of encrypted web traffic and offer more flexibility. With the new M470, M570 and M670 appliances, users can add additional network modules to increase the number of copper or fibre ports available to support the growing use of 10G fibre in midsize enterprise data centres. The new Firebox M Series appliances also enable users to inspect encrypted traffic with industry-leading performance with all security services enabled. According to Miercom, an independent testing lab, the updated Firebox M370 performs full HTTPS inspection 94% faster than competing solutions.

Quoting IT: Data encryption is not enough

"Disk encryption, which encrypts every bit of data on a hard drive, is a good additional level of defense. However, unless biometric or smart-card authentication is used on the device, it is simply one more password for a hacker or thief to crack."

 - Greg Crowe, "After theft, NASA orders laptops encrypted, but is that enough?", GCN.com, November 16, 2012