We strongly encourage companies possessing or transmitting personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), financial or other sensitive data, including trade secrets, to use encryption. Why?  Because, if employed properly, it is both effective and legally defensible.

So what is encryption?

Encryption is a type of information security. It involves the coding and decoding of messages in order to protect private content from third parties. In its earliest form, encryption was essentially letter substitution (e.g., substituting the letter “a”…
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