How fast to lose business or work: do without encryption

Software encryption is a fundamental part of all aspects of modern computer communication and file protection. "Wikipedia"

we told in our previous articles about how the lack of control over flash drives and cloud storage can suddenly bring down the business, leaving the work of all employees. Now look at the issue of protecting sensitive data from a different angle. And what if to make sure that valuable corporate data, even if their vykradut, proved useless in the wrong hands?

Today we will tell you about how effective encryption of corporate information and how to find a suitable encryption system for the business.

Why encrypt information

The reasons are several, and each of them is associated with a threat for the whole company and for the individual employee's career.

Stick loose and give into the hands of just anyone. It happens all the time. Often managers and bezopasnik do not know what to copy employees on external drives and to whom they give. "There is a USB flash drive? Tomorrow I will give. " Familiar? It happens at work, at home, among friends and acquaintances. Who can guarantee that someone transferred a flash drive will not corporate data? Lost or given away at the time of the drive could fall into the hands of anyone - including the one who decides to use the information for the benefit of themselves and to the detriment of your business.

Computers give to the service, and laptops forgotten in a variety of places. Believe in ethics and decency of people? Just read the stories of real people Comment on this article. The services is the norm to merge information from the disc, "just in case", but in fact then it looking for "something like that." Laptops, according to their destination, take with you wherever you go: for lunches, working visits, driven home on public transport. Sometimes they are there and forgotten. Prognosis is clear and very unfavorable: all the corporate data stored on the laptop, will be in the hands of the one who finds unowned technology.

Cloud storage, which have become so popular, can also cause leaks. We are dedicated to this topic a separate article and we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the risks, which takes over the company in exchange for the easy transfer and storage of information.

All these problems can be avoided if your data will be encrypted. Even if the information possess strangers, then use it still would not be able to.

Encryption - a reliable tool that can and should be used to further protect personal and corporate data. Find tools that implement the encryption is not difficult. Much more difficult to choose among them the most effective.

How to choose a data encryption system for your company

Proper corporate data encryption system must:

• To be able to encrypt individual files and folders - both local and network.
• To be able to encrypt removable media, be it USB flash drive or a removable drive, and hard drives of computers and laptops entirely.
• To be able to encrypt data in the cloud storage.
• Provides a flexible multi-tier separation of access rights to encrypted information, starting with the individual employee or department and ending with the whole company.
• Implement transparent encryption that is transparent to the users work. In this case, the system administrator must be able to specify the data types and scenarios for which the information will be encrypted forced or initiated by the user.
• Provide for the possibility to decrypt files encrypted with a password on the computer. Imagine that you spend road show, take your laptop there is no way, and all the materials you have on your flash drive. Without file decryption capabilities beyond the company's encryption system will only hinder the work.
• Have a convenient control system, which allows you to easily configure security policies without resorting to the services of hired professionals.

If the system of corporate data protection meets the requirements listed above and includes a means of controlling flash drives and cloud storage, then in front of you is really a reliable tool that can protect your business from leaks information.