You may have seen some VPN providers boasting about using AES-256 encryption, but it’s not immediately apparent what this ...

Readers of a certain age will remember those 'invisible ink' spy toys that let you write a 'secret' message which would only appear after rubbing the page with half of a lemon. Yeah, this is not that.

What are cryptographic keys, and why should they be kept safe? A cryptographic key is a string of data that is used to encrypt data (to the data secret), decrypt data (to perform the reverse operation ...

Managing various encryption keys and other secrets has always been painful for enterprise security managers. A new service from GitGuardian called Has My Secret Leaked attempts to bring some clarity ...

Asymmetric encryption is when the key used to decrypt something is different from the key used to encrypt something. The downside to asymmetric encryption is that it's typically very slow and only ...

Talk of backdoors in encrypted services is once again doing the rounds after reports emerged that the U.K. government is seeking to force Apple to open up iCloud’s end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) device ...

The encryption of documents and records by businesses and consumers has grown in recent years. This is especially true as more records are stored in the cloud. Encrypted data is accessible only ...

Google will now let enterprise customers of one of its Cloud Platform services lock up their data with their own encryption keys, in case they’re concerned about the company snooping on their ...

Apple is expanding its iCloud security features and introducing support for security keys for two-factor authentication. Apple is expanding its iCloud security features and introducing support for ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Most people don’t think about it daily, but data encryption is vital to our lives. Secure ...