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Why you don’t need to encrypt your backup |
April 14, 2014
Richard O'Hara backs up regularly to an external hard drive, but that leaves him worried. “How can I make the data on the external drive secure in case it's lost or stolen?”Back up and encrypt. Those are vital habits for everyone in our digital society. Without a backup, each and every document, spreadsheet, photo and video on your hard drive could disappear in seconds. And without encryption, your sensitive files could fall into the wrong hands, resulting in identity theft and other disasters.In short, you need to back up all of your files. You also need to encrypt the ones containing sensitive information. And the encrypted files need to remain encrypted in the backup.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2110087/why-you-don-t-need-to-encrypt-your-backup.html#tk.rss_howto
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