Perfect Confidentiality with Data Security

Secure your data everywhere it goes from your laptop to your smart phone and so on. Data Security is a way of protecting your database from unwanted parties and hiding it from unwanted agents.

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Currently organizations and corporations are using various data security technologies to ensure that their data is secure and cannot be accessed by any unauthorized persons.

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This is a major breakthrough since their clients data is safe from any manipulation. Some of the latest technologies which are being utilized to protect data include.

1. Data encryption: In data encryption data is normally encrypted on a hard drive. Disk encryption normally takes the form of hardware or software. In most cases this form of encryption is referred to as transparent encryption since it discloses all the data and you can access it anytime that you want.

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All you need to have is a password to help you access all the information that you want. It would be a perfect way of protecting your data from the public and keeping it safe.

2. Software based solutions prevent the data from being accessed by another person. A hacker may tame with the data system making the system unusable since the lost data can never been recovered. A hardware based solution prevents the editing commands hence providing security against any unauthorized access.

Software prevents the data from being authorized by a third party who might edit or steal it from the system. If you just want to protect data from being stolen then you should go for this option since it ensures maximum protection for your personal data.

3. Assisted computer security or hardware based normally provides an alternative to the software based protection.

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Various security tokens like PKCS#11 have proven to be more secure since you must have physical access to the device for you to access it, therefore it is not easy for it to be compromised. You can only gain access to the token after it has been connected and the right pin has been entered.

Unlike dongles which can be accessed by anyone who can physically access them. New technologies in hardware based security solutions can be used; this is because it allows a user to log in and out while they can still set various privileges manually.

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Biometric technology is normally applied by the device to prevent unauthorized users from logging in and logging out and setting the privilege levels.

Protection provided by operating systems is not as secure as that which is provided by hardware based access control since operating systems are easily susceptible to malicious attacks by viruses and hackers. If a malicious virus gets access to your data then it might corrupt the data making it unusable therefore you can no longer use it.

 

A software cannot manipulate the privilege levels on a hardware based security solution. The hardware protects the file system and the operating system privilege from being tampered with. This means that a secure system can be created by combining secure system administration and hardware based security.