Encryption Articles
Why do You Need a File/Folder Password Protection Program?
People living in developing world tend to save information and data in electronic forms such as in pictures, videos, audios and word files, etc. Now you seldom find information or data saved in paper form. Electronic files are easy to save and transmit; but it’s accompanied by data security issues. Files/folders without any protection on computer tend to result in data breach regardless of the computer is connected to the Internet or stay offline. As people can’t comprehend why files on offline computer also will be compromised, hence now we first discuss the importance of offline security. Just imagine you must take a phone call while you are using your computer; now your child takes your position and opens one of folders that contains your personal photos. It definitely doesn’t matter if photos are only family photos or landscape photos, what if the photos are not inappropriate for child? Much less than the importance of data security for computers connected to the Internet.
Many people have become aware of the importance of data security, but the problem is they don’t know how to cope with. Data protection solutions came into being when issues of data loss and data breach burst into our life and results in significant impact on us. The invention of file password protection software to some extent facilitates us with data protection. Computer users can find many of such kind of program on the market and purchase the suitable one to password protect specified file/folder. With protection on important and personal files/folders, one can rest assured share computer with family members without having to worry about file/folder being accessed by unauthorized users.
File/folder password protection software is also available for companies to secure their commercial secrets, financial data, and customers’ information and so on. Considering the fact that everyone has some sort of personal data stored on their computers, it’s essential for individuals and commercial groups to safeguard important files with password using professional password protect software.
Internal threats in your company
With rapid development of information technology and continually deepening network construction, modern society’s more and more dependent on information network, many companies and organizations have built internal LAN, realizing office automation. But network information security issues are more and more serious when the network brings convenience to work. Currently, the majority of people put financial and material resources on attacks from outside network, but the results of network security special investigation on 484 companies conducted by FBI and CSI showed: More than 85% of internal security threats are from internal company, 16% of which comes from unauthorized internal access, 14% from the patent information stolen, 12% from the deception of internal staff, only 5% are from hackers’ attacks; on the amount of losses, the loss caused by internal staffs leakage is up to $ 6,056,000, which is 16 times of that caused by hackers, and 12 times as much as loss caused by virus. This set of data fully illustrates perils of internal staff leaks; we can say that every internal staff that can operate computer is potential threat to internal network security. At present, all kinds of secret-related network’s outside information security defense level is relatively high, including firewalls, multiple security gateways, network gateway, intrusion detection, file encryption software, physical isolation and other technical methods, which better realize secure defense against intrusion from outside network, but the problem of internal network control is still serious.