Encryption is everywhere online; it’s the process and technologies that enable you to securely log into your email and make online purchases

What types of information are you sending in emails or via website connections? What are you storing on your company servers? Inquiring minds want to know — namely, cybercriminals.

Data from Orca Security shows that more than one-third (36%) of organizations don’t bother encrypting the sensitive data they store in the cloud. This includes data such as intellectual property to customers or employees’ personally identifiable information (PII).

We’ve seen multiple instances of security issues this year involving unencrypted data:

• JusTalk exposes millions of encrypted messages containing call records and callers’ and recipients’ phone numbers.
• Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a $35 million SEC penalty after auctioning off thousands of old hard drives and servers containing unencrypted customer PII data.
• Cybersecurity researchers were able to access unencrypted video footage from Eufy Security video cameras.

One way to fight back against cybercriminals is to use Encryption to secure your data. But what is encryption? I mean, what does encryption mean, both in the sense of what it does and how it secures your data and communications?

Let’s hash it out.

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