Over the years, as we find ourselves more and more dependent upon the usage of Information Technology and internet, we may have to confess this highly bitter and alarming fact that the cyber world has been plagued by innumerous threats. These cyber crimes have no doubt taken a toll over the security and sanctity of our highly important and vulnerable data. Information that we consider to be very much private and confidential to ourselves, it may be of any kind whatsoever.
The usage of computers and laptops has become a necessity of our times and it is highly important that we use these electronic gadgets with utmost caution keeping in view the security of our personal identity and also reputation as a whole. There are numerous kinds of cyber crimes that are around and that pose a highly serious threat and risk to our data security. In the previous year alone, the number of these crimes, including identity theft, data breach, cyber hacking, laptop and USB theft and many other such sort of heinous crimes has led to a staggering and whopping loss of millions of dollars in United States alone.
No matter from which walk of life you belong, either you are a business person, entrepreneur, professional, a college or university going student or just a stay at home housewife, this all may affect you and you might become the hot target and the ultimate victim of this malice. The risks and the stakes are sky rocketing high especially for professionals and businessmen who have some of the most important and confidential data with them on their computers or laptops. Even they are at a high risk when travelling as they usually store their highly precious and confidential organizational information in USB flash drives.
The essentiality of securing our files and folders can just not be denied in this era of when our information is prone to a number of highly dangerous threats. Securing this information through proper and adequate measures of data security is very much the pressing concern and need of this time. It is high time to not only consider safeguarding our records but also adopt and deploy certain data security techniques like file, password protection of our critical documents and securing our data in online cloud storage.
File encryption is a very important and highly prevalent form of security. It fulfills the purpose of securing our data by encrypting our files into cipher text from plain text thus making it unreadable or indecipherable for hackers and crackers and also from any kind of unauthorized person. Password protection is also a form of technique that lets you to lock and hide your data by setting unique and strong passwords to your sensitive files and thus protecting it from any kind of infringement activity. For the purpose of encrypting our documents in a genuine and reliable manner, it is very essential to deploy authentic encryption software that is easy to use, and without any complicated features and also provides trustworthy and secure from of encryption features.
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