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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Indonesia Soon to Become the Fifth ASEAN Country to Adapt Data Privacy Laws

Security Affairs

Some key provisions in the draft personal data protection law are: Personal Data. Any data that can be identifiable on its own or combined with other information, both direct and indirect through electronic or non-electronic systems. General personal data v. specific personal data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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STEPS FORWARD: How the Middle East led the U.S. to adopt smarter mobile security rules

The Last Watchdog

When it comes to securing mobile computing devices, the big challenge businesses have long grappled with is how to protect company assets while at the same time respecting an individual’s privacy. You now actually have to prove the data is encrypted, both at rest and in transit.

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12 Hours or Else: Hong Kong’s Cybersecurity Explained

Centraleyes

The Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Computer Systems) Bill , passed on March 19, 2025 , requires key industriessuch as banking, energy, healthcare, and telecommunicationsto strengthen their cybersecurity defenses, conduct regular risk assessments, and promptly report security incidents.

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Security Roundup January 2025

BH Consulting

Computer Weekly said the 2025 edition paints a gloomy picture of countries becoming more isolated, growing risks of armed conflict, and worsening environmental problems over the next two years. The Electronic Frontier Federation has a good explainer of the surveillance mechanism behind the world of online ads.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

Still, over time, they’ve been woven into baseline data security regulations far and wide. NIST specs are echoed in the data loss disclosure and data privacy laws that have cropped up in many U.S. states, for instance. Shamoon motivated the Saudis to seriously ramp up the work of its National Cyber Security Center.