Businesses can transform data into a secret code that only their authorized users can read when transferring the data over the internet. This means that even if a threat attacker can access the data, they cannot understand it without a proper key.
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This could include symmetric encryption, where the same key is used for both encryption and decryption, or asymmetric encryption, where a public key is used for encryption and a private key is used for decryption. Show more…
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