There are many software products which provide encryption. Software encryption uses a cipher to obscure the content i… See more

Data in transit is data that is being sent over a computer network. When the data is between two endpoints, any confidential information may be vulnerable. The payload (confidential information) can be encrypted t… See more

Data at rest refers to data that has been saved to persistent storage. Data at rest is generally encrypted by a symmetric key.
Encryption may be applied at different layers in the storage stack. For example, encryption … See more

When there is a need to securely transmit data at rest, without the ability to create a secure connection, user space tools have been developed that support this need. These tools rely upon the receiver publishing t… See more