Data encryption refers to the process of transforming electronic information into a scrambled form that can only be read by someone who knows how to translate the code. Encryption was already used ...

File encryption can also protect against doh! moments such as accidentally sharing more than you meant to with a misconfigured file-sharing program, for example.

Homomorphic encryption enables users to edit data without decrypting it, meaning the broader dataset is kept private even as it is being written. The technology may not be an ideal solution for ...

In a world facing ongoing cyber threats, encryption is one of the most effective yet underutilized tools to mitigate and prevent data breaches.

Using services without end-to-end encryption doesn't mean your data is necessarily at a high risk of being exposed, and any kind of encryption is better than none.

That encryption, however, is tied to a passcode, meaning you must actually assign and use a passcode for your iOS device in order for your data to be protected.

While proxy re-encryption is an existing area of cryptography, applying it to big data is what’s novel here, according to Wilkison, who says the tech has mostly been used in academia thus far.

Demers challenged a broadly-held belief among privacy advocates that it is impossible to retain end-to-end encryption for cybersecurity while allowing law enforcement special access to the coded data.

But the concerns were meant to kick start a broad public debate about the amount of data law enforcement agencies should have access to, Daniel said.