The widespread adoption of encryption began in the mid-1990s, coinciding with the internet’s rapid growth and increasing popularity. Before encryption data was transmitted in plain text, making it ...

We’ve covered a lot of ransomware here, but we haven’t spent a lot of time looking at the decryptor tools available to victims. When ransomware gangs give up, or change names, some of them release a ...

Gigamon’s Precryption technology uses Linux’s eBPF to inspect pre-encryption and post-decryption network traffic for malicious activity. With promises of unprecedented visibility into encrypted ...

Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing. Strong encryption is ...

Secure sockets layer (SSL) is an industry-standard method for secure communications on the internet. SSL -- along with its successor, transport layer security (TLS) -- is the commonly accepted ...

Asymmetric cryptography, also known as public key cryptography, is a process that uses a pair of related keys-- one public key and one private key -- to encrypt and decrypt a message and protect it ...

Both asymmetric and symmetric encryption are being used by businesses to protect their information. But what are the differences? Read to find out. The growth in information security has given rise to ...