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Samsung Electronics on Thursday said it is boosting security on solid-state drives by bundling data encryption software with SSDs it ships. The company is bundling software from Wave Systems’ Embassy ...

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 secures information by translating it into computer code that’s unreadable to those who don’t have the means to access the information. These means of access can include passwords, ...

File/operating system level-encryption is actually implemented outside the database engine -- but it's still a form of database encryption. And it's referred to as "transparent" encryption because it ...

Data encryption as a crucial step to manage data access and security Your email has been sent In a poll of 1,000 business professionals and software developers, nearly 45% say their company has faced ...

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On average, it takes businesses 287 days to find and contain a data breach, giving attackers over nine months to access and steal any records they want from the database. However, encrypting those ...

Just because you have antivirus software installed on your PC doesn't mean a zero-day Trojan can't steal your personal data. The best encryption software keeps you safe from malware (and the NSA).