Data protection
You have more and more digital assets. This is your work, your e-mail, your music, your pictures, and all your personal files. Some of these data are confidential, others need privacy. Most of your confidential data are stored on your personal computer, exchanged in e-mail or stored under nicknames on remote blogs or others music and video publication services.
Your confidential data, or your real identity are assets for some persons or corporations. It is for spam, for harmful intentions, or for commerce. Therefore Data Protection concerns the following domains:
- Real deletion or deleted data on your computer (common delete action only puts a flag)
- Protection of all your viewed internet pages cached on your computer
- Protection of all the security cookies uploaded on your computer
- Granting access rights to your private data
- Enforcing access rights to these private data
- Protecting data about your real identity
- Controlling logging data on remote Internet services
- Protecting your Medical records
- Protecting your financial data
- Protecting your intimacy data
- ....
Data protection aims at granting and enforcing access rights on your private data and the related technical data. There are well known techniques to achieve this, but unfortunately using them requires a strong infrastructure support.
| How SECUR.COM could help your Data Protection |
A security provider like SECUR.COM, could provide the necessary infrastructure support, with the followings:
- Support for private data handling on your computer
- Support for encryption techniques
- Identity provider
- Hosting of private data
Protecting your data, it is first protecting your digital identity. This is obtained using one or more SECUR.COM "digital keys" relying on Internet standards (digital certificates). With certificates you can encrypt your data for safe exchanges or storage. You can also identify you remotely.
Therefore, the first step is to ensure adequate [protection of your digital key], and your [Internet browser]. Digital keys are generally stored in a safe part of the browser. Encrypting data with Digital key is possible with a number of software tools. SECUR.COM provide the necessary simplified documentation.
- Commercial publication tools supporting encryption
- [ADOBE ACROBAT] security features
- Open source tools supporting encryption
