Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA 2008 Conference -- The conference that once was just a gathering of a few cryptographers is now a major event that drew more than 17,000 attendees last week. And the technology ...

Increasing concerns over security breaches from external and internal threats, regulatory compliance requirements from HIPAA, the HITECH Act, PCI DSS, and other mandates, plus the migration from ...

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 ...

Cryptography is the art of encrypting and decrypting data. Encryption is the process of encoding unencrypted data, or plaintext, into encrypted data, or ciphertext, to disguise the data and make it ...

Every day, we are creating and sharing data at an astounding rate. With each email, text, tweet, tap and stream, more data is available for companies to collect and use, and without sufficient ...

Hashing and Encryption, do you know what these are? Some might have heard the names before and believe they are the same. But that is not the case at all. You see, much of the data that is moving ...