The technology community has a definition of an encryption back door. The government has its own. A judge’s order Tuesday night compelling Apple to assist law enforcement officials in unlocking the ...

Businesses across industries, big and small, will be reflecting on some of the changes and challenges heading there way, in a world marked by widespread cloud deployments, use of multiple public cloud ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

In today’s digital economy, where organizations rely on cloud computing, mobile technologies and data-driven decision making, securing sensitive information has never been more critical. Encryption ...

The debate over the Federal Government's recently passed encryption law is dead serious for the most part, but Melbourne University academics Dr Chris Culnane and Associate Professor Vanessa Teague ...

A method built into an encryption system that is used to decrypt the data in an emergency. The encryption backdoor is theoretically only available to legitimate governments. Nevertheless, backdoors ...

The Federal Government is yet to properly define in its encryption bill what a systemic weakness means, and the question came up more than once for discussion during the second hearing on the bill ...

Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and chief technology officer at Resilient Systems, Inc., is the author, most recently, of "Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control ...

A wise man once said, “encryption is easy, key management is hard.” PGP recognized this and built a great key management platform to manage encryption keys for mobile devices, PCs, email, mainframes, ...

This article appears in the Aug. 27, 2009, edition of ISO&Agent Weekly. As card-security breaches continue to hamper the payments industry, the parties involved in the transaction process are ...