The battle for government access to encrypted messaging data raises key enterprise IT strategy issues. Apple has been battling to maintain encryption for a decade. Two federal agencies now see it as a ...

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Most organizations operate under a dangerous misconception that their data is safe with encryption at rest and in transit.

Database encryption can add a valuable layer of security to critical data stores, but only if the encryption is done well. As the number of database encryption deployments increases, so, too, does the ...

The increasing amount of data we’re all generating is everywhere: in smartphones, laptops, thumb drives, and dozens of online services. How can we secure all of them against unwarranted access? We ...

Commentary - Data encryption has become a necessary component to most enterprise data security strategies. Enterprises can no longer rely on basic authentication and access control tools to protect ...

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 ...

Swiss public-sector data protection officers say controlling the geographic location of cloud data isn’t enough: governments ...

In December 2019, popular document database MongoDB added a fairly radical new feature to the platform: field-level database encryption. At first glance, one might wonder whether this is a meaningful ...

Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away.

COMMENTARY--When the team from Protegrity, Inc. called the ZDNet offices last week to tell us about its database content encryption software, Secure.Data, my initial reaction was, "Who needs it?" ...