Pretty Good Privacy or PGP is used by commercial email providers for the encryption PGP is a very powerful tool to convert text into code...

When you encrypt a disk or a file with encryption software, often you are asked to select the size of the encryption key, which could be 128- or 256-bit, or even longer...

We’ve all seen the headlines – reports of laptops containing vital state secrets or sensitive data being left on trains, the chaos this can cause and the retribution it brings down on the luckless owner, especially if they happen to work for a bank...

Every business owner in the country knows about HIPAA and HIPAA Encryption Compliance A law introduced in the 1990’s and updated in 2003 to cover the use and protection of protected medical information or PHI...

Email encryption is a term that refers to the encryption as well as the authentication of email or electronic mail messages...

Technology has become so intertwined in our lives one will be hard-pressed to wonder what our lives would be like without it...

In a day when it seems that the entire world has access to all of our personal information, Newsweek arrives with a blasting cover "Beating Big Brother," and as a techie-lite, I'm always interested in how big brother is peeking into my business...

Data security is a big issue for companies, and no one is untouchable Even worse, the attacks on companies’ IT systems aren’t diminishing...

As we all know, sensitive information that shouldn’t be accessed by others should be secured or make inaccessible to non owners...

As the world becomes more advanced each day, it also seems to grow less and less secure The creation of new virtual venues has also paved the way to the emergence of places where people can be victims of criminal activity such as fraud and identity theft...

Computers give us a remarkable amount of convenience With one machine, we can send mail and pictures to friends, go shopping, pay bills, make appointments and confirm any number of different pieces of information in our lives...

As consumers upgrade their computers and laptops and are discovering the convenience of wireless computing, they may also be opening themselves up to attacks from random hackers...

Because nobody wants to compromise the integrity of their network by having some hacker "borrow" your bandwidth or gain access and start snooping around you need to lock down your network...

Yes, I'm wearing my encryption hat again Why you may ask...