AxCrypt wishes you a merry Christms and a good start for 2021. Our team has come up with a few tips for the holidays season to best protect your data. There is no better time than to update behaviour and deal with the settings of your devices! Cyber criminals are very hard working dedicated people. As a matter of fact they don’t even allow themselves a break during winter holidays. Always on the prowl, looking for weak links to break and crack. How can users, especially in this increasingly connected world, have complete assurance that their data is safe, wherever it may be located? Keep an eye on your personal data while enjoying well deserved days-off.
A few secret tips to keep your data safe during the holiday season with AxCrypt
1. Protect your network
Use a virtual private network (VPN). VPNs are used to protect private web traffic from snooping, interference, and censorship. PNs encrypt all the data you send over the internet. Your VPN also masks your IP address and finally some VPNs block malicious websites, ads, and trackers.
2. Watch your passwords.
Strong passwords are the key to your digital life. Passwords are the digital keys to our networks of friends, our work colleagues, and even our banking and payment services. The most important two passwords are those for your email and social network accounts. It’s important to use entirely new and unique passwords for each account you might run, so you avoid compromising your data if one of your accounts gets hacked. To have a strong password it is extremely important not to include any personal information in your passwords. Hackers could attempt to log on to your account by guessing your password based off of personal information gained from your security questions. The shorter and less complex your password is, the quicker it can be to come up with the correct combination of characters and access your private information. A password cracker is a programme using a multitude of combinations in a very small amount of time until gaining full access to whatever your password was protecting. Use a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols and numbers.
And don’t forget - if in need of inspiration you can use our password generator. Based on statistical analysis of actual text, it produces strong passwords that are not nonsensical and actually possible to remember and type. You’ll get three suggestions of decreasing strength and complexity. Try it out by clicking this following link: https://www.axcrypt.net/support/password-generator
We have furthermore password management features available. Don’t worry about trying to remember all your different passwords anymore - we take care of that for you. Keep all your passwords and secrets safe in our cloud.
3. Secure your Cloud Data
With our Cloud storage awareness, your files will automatically be secured in Dropbox, Google Drive etc. Our user friendly system enables ease of operations, guarantees the highest possible control and ensures that nobody but you can access your personal information so that no disadvantageous data breach arises.Moreover we offer Zero Knowledge encryption. Zero knowledge cloud encryption safeguards your privacy, in short your personal data is encrypted in the best possible way and there is no way for cloud providers nor us to identify your accreditation. You can use our Cloud encryption software by signing up to our business (for companies) or premium (for private users) subscription.
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4. Encrypt!
End-to-end encryption gives you back control and protects your data from snoopers and prying eyes. Encryption is the best working way so far to secure your data of any form of unwanted access. By taking plain text and using mathematical calculations to turn data into code it is converted into cipher text, only those who have the special key can decrypt your files.
Premium and business customers have access to our extra strong encryption method: AES-256. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256 is adopted by federal agencies like the National Security Agency (NSA) where national security is involved. AES-256 is the strongest, most secure and most efficient encryption algorithm available nowadays. AES uses symmetric key encryption: one secret key is used to cipher and decipher. Symmetric keys are better suited to internal encryption, faster and in need of less computational power it is therefore an effective mechanism. The plaintext, which is the information to be encrypted, is divided into sections of 256-bit block size after a few rounds of substitutions, permutations and linear transformations the data is transformed into code. The size of the encrypted data remains the same: 256 bits of plaintext yields 256 bits of ciphertext.
To sum up, encryption is fundamental to contemporary internet security. It is an extremely complicated subject but we are proud at AxCrypt to make the process of it simple and friendly to use for everyone.