CHAPTER 5

Required Encryption Standards

This Chapter Will Discuss the Importance of Using a Certain Level of Encryption for any Information that You’re Company Holds While It Is in Your Possession and When It Is in Transit (on Your Website, Sent to Third Party Partners, and so on) and How You Can Find Software that Will Do This for You

Encryption refers to the practice of converting information into a code in order to prevent unauthorized access to that information. Encryption is a huge part of protecting customer information and it will be one of the first thing’s that investigator’s check for if there is a security incident. The reason encryption is so important is because even if information is stolen from your company’s possession if its ...

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