Traditional security strategies are no longer effective in protecting your data in today’s landscape.
The new working from home environment has presented several security challenges to businesses including software and hardware vulnerabilities, ransomware, and employee data theft. Traditional security methods can no longer keep up with the exponential growth of external and internal cyber threats.
Encryption is the process of encoding or scrambling data so that it is unreadable and completely unusable unless a user has the correct decryption key.
Encryption is widely regarded as the most effective way to protect data and has been widely used by the military and enterprise businesses. With the ability to behave, interact and do business remotely extended to most organisation’s, there is now also a growing demand for encryption by SMBs.
Endpoint encryption is an essential software tool for data security, altering the form of data so that is indecipherable to anyone other than the intended recipient across any endpoint device.
This prevents the data from being readable and misused, should that data fall in the wrong hands.
Encryption is an important layer in an organisation’s security infrastructure. Security products such as firewalls, intrusion prevention, and role-based access control applications all help protect data within the organisation.
However, breaches and data theft have become increasingly common, and data encryption can protect data even after it leaves an organisation. Encryption is a key defense against data theft and exposure.