encryption

Most companies have information needed to be encrypted in order to stay out of preying eyes. Depending on your industry, you may find yourself with a need to easily and quickly store your data on an encrypted device. Only challenge is to find a portable device that come with encryption built in, or to find a suitable software encryption tool.

Enters the hiddn Crypto Adapter, a device that easily connects to your USB, and allow you to connect your USB storage directly to it, automatically encrypting the data. To add to the security, you use a SmartCard to store one set of keys, adding one more level of security.

Google's encrypted search engine, launched in May, has moved to a new Web address that isn't as convenient as its original one but that gives organizations the option to block the site for their users without locking them out of other Google services.

Originally offered at google.com, the encrypted search engine has been relocated to encrypted.google.com, a move prompted primarily by the requirement of schools and universities to block encrypted search engines for their students.

Educational institutions often ban encrypted search engines because students can use them to bypass the Web content filters of their schools and universities.

However, blocking google.com also interferes with other encrypted Google products, like the hosted Apps communication and collaboration suite, which many educational institutions offer for their staff and students.

According to Goode Intelligence's Mobile Security Survey (Part Three) 40 percent of organisations are planning to deploy mobile phone data encryption. Of these organisations, one hundred percent plan to include encryption on employees’ mobile phones from September 2010 onwards.

This survey, carried out in partnership with Acumin Consulting is the most comprehensive vendor-independent survey on mobile phone security to date and provides a snapshot of the state of mobile security within organisations across the globe.

“The threat of data loss from a mobile phone is still relatively low but with the rising adoption of data-centric applications on smartphones, including enterprise applications and financial services, we feel that the threat will rise from the second-half of 2010 onwards” said Alan Goode, Managing Director, Goode Intelligence.