Foregenix Blog

To begin, we'll take the following definitions of 'privacy' and 'information privacy' from the International Association of Privacy Professionals:

Following on from Encryption 101, this post will focus on different methods of Encryption, when they're applicable and why they are important. 

When it comes to talking about encryption, it’s important to ensure we’re speaking about the same thing – and to clarify and simplify some of the different implementations we see. Sometimes these are implemented for security and best practice, while other times they are implemented to tick a box. It's important to know the difference between encryption mechanisms, know when to use what and be able to identify and judge the security of particular implementations. This is the first of 2 or more posts.