If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

The problem with encrypted data is that you must decrypt it in order to work with it. By doing so, it’s vulnerable to the very things you were trying to protect it from by encrypting it. There is a ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Database encryption protects sensitive information by scrambling the data ...

What do you do when you need to perform computations on large data sets while preserving their confidentiality? In other words, you would like to gather analytics, for example, on user data, without ...

Encryption is a function on certain apps and devices that allows users to send and receive private messages. End-to-end encryption allows people to communicate with each other on certain apps or ...

Confidence in the electoral system is fundamental to a healthy democracy. But when a Gallup poll last year asked people if they had faith in the honesty of elections, 59% of Americans said they did ...

You’ve probably seen the phrase "end-to-end encrypted" on various messaging services and webpages before, and you may have an intuitive sense of what it means. The idea is that nobody but you and the ...

The process of turning sensitive data into a token or distinctive identifier while maintaining its value and link to the original data is known as data tokenization. This token stands in for the ...

Your iPhone or Mac, when configured correctly, will keep all but the worst bad actors out of your data. This also means the good guys can't see your data either, and government agencies are not so ...

Windows 11 is gaining anew, hardware accelerated BitLocker encryption capability on new devices starting next year.