Part Five: Managed Encryption

By: Sam Geary, Marketing Executive

Finally, we’ve reached the last of our five blog posts on data safety.

The final topic we’ll be focusing on is encryption, so read on to find out why encryption is important for the safety of your data and your business.

If you’ve been keeping up to date with our blogs and our website in general, then you probably know that encryption has been a massive focal point for us recently. In fact data safety in general has been something we have really tried to educate people on, especially with the GDPR now in full force.

Encryption put simply is used to protect information and keep data safe. It involves taking information and coding it with a secret cipher. The cipher can be used to show the information, but to anyone the coded message would be complete gibberish.

Encryption many only get a couple of lines in the GDPR, but that doesn’t reflect on its significance.

Data encryption is vital for your business, not only because it would be a huge inconvenience if your information was lost or stolen, but because it’s now part of the new data protection legislation we mentioned earlier – GDPR.

A lot of people think encryption is a complicated thing that only a genius can fully understand, but this isn’t the case. Encryption isn’t difficult to understand, in fact it relatively simple. Put plainly, it allows you to securely protect the data that you don’t want others to access.

Encryption has been around for many years. Without it, you could be left vulnerable if a smart enough cyber criminal attempted to hack into your most business-critical phone or laptop.

It offers you that safety blanket for your business, giving you the peace of mind you need, should any of your devices go missing.

Unfortunately, data breaches aren’t uncommon and if data isn’t being protected properly or devices are being left hanging around in unsecured places, then your business could face the backlash from the ICO.

This is where we come in.

Managed Encryption keeps your devices in safe hands, even if they fall into the wrong hands.

Our Managed Encryption service is a cloud based solution meaning that even if your most significant devices decide to go walkabouts, you can rest assured that your sensitive data stays safe and sound. It also means that you’ll never miss a non-compliant device because you can protect all the devices within your business.

A few benefits of having our Managed Encryption…