It may be true that Microsoft has the decryption keys to your encrypted hard disk if you bought a PC with Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 preinstalled, if it supports device encryption (we still come ...

At its core the PCI Data Security Standard is nothing more than a series of guidelines that constitute security best practices. But companies that institute programs to better protect cardholder ...

RSA encryption uses an ingeniously simple mathematical premise. Recent news stories suggest China has cracked it. But there's ...

Agencies view encryption as an essential tool to protect data as it’s transmitted across networks and at rest in storage.. But encrypting that data also forces agencies to maintain all the required ...

Box is launching encryption keys that only you will hold. by Russell Brandom. Feb 10, 2015, 5:00 PM UTC. If you put ...

Called “Enterprise Key Management (EKM),” the service puts encryption keys inside a customer’s own data center and in a special security module stored in an Amazon data center.

Without good encryption key management, what you thought was black or white may actually have many shades of grey. A 2008 Trust Catalyst survey found that organizations see key management as the ...

Whether the FBI and NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn't stopped the U.S. government from trying.

Poorly managed, lost or stolen encryption keys can lead to failed audits, data breaches and system downtime. PCI DSS and key management The PCI standard provides specific guidelines for achieving ...