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Cryptography Strategy: Maximize Encryption Storage
Many different types of encryption storage serve anyone from home users to major corporations. There are online encrypted storage "vaults" for individuals to server farms dedicated to encrypted storage. There are also external drives that attach to your computer via firewire or USB. What you get depends upon what you need and what you need will depend upon your requirements.
There doesn't seem to be any industry standard or a vendor solution that tops them all. So, it's really hard to say which is best. Nonetheless, the number of solutions available on the market is mind boggling.
Media encryption
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A good practice, especially when you are dealing with laptops or home computers, is to use media encryption (disk encryption). This is usually in the form of a special software program that encrypts the entire hard disk. The only portions that are not encrypted are the boot sector, which is needed to boot the computer. You can also get external hard drives that automatically encrypt everything that is saved or copied to them. Some of these have a special security device called a dongle. The dongle is a physical device that you plug into the port and the cable of the external drive is plugged into the dongle.
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