Who Is Minding Your Sensitive Data?

Written by Cavyl Stewart


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Passwords that are required to login to a program are considered authentication methods, whererepparttar identity ofrepparttar 103320 person logging in is simply authenticated, or verified. But passwords are easy to figure out and anyone capable of figuring out passwords will still have access torepparttar 103321 data contained within.

So for data to truly be protected, you’ve got to gorepparttar 103322 extra step and encrypt it. There are many encryption programs available today. The most sophisticated of those protect our nation’s secrets.

But forrepparttar 103323 small business owner, who has minimal understanding of encryption methodologies or terminology, and wants it to stay this way, ease of use is what’s important.

Behindrepparttar 103324 scenes, all encryption software uses an algorithm or some other complex mathematical processes to scramblerepparttar 103325 data. Keys or strings of binary numbers (bits) are created and are what is used to mix uprepparttar 103326 data. The binary numbers andrepparttar 103327 data mix together andrepparttar 103328 result are data that is unreadable.

When more binary numbers are used, more encryption combinations are possible. Therefore, longer strings (more binary numbers or bits) are preferred when encrypting because this makesrepparttar 103329 code even more difficult to break. So it makes sense that 128-bit encryption software is more secure than 56-bit encryption software.

Data that is encrypted is safe from prying eyes which means that your business data is safe. To view data that has been encrypted, it must be decrypted.

Whether you need to protect your e-commerce website, your email, your business data or that of your clients, be sure you use encryption software.



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Improve Your Bottom Line, Ken Saved over $100,000

Written by Chuck Yorke


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Engaging employees in improving their work creates new levels of communication and givesrepparttar ownership of improvements torepparttar 103319 worker. We now recognize that “you know your job better then management does because you arerepparttar 103320 one that does it every day.” Since people arerepparttar 103321 expert in their work, who better to come up with ideas to improve it then them. We all want, need and deserve respect.

Claudia designed a fixture to hold bubble wrap she used for packaging. It made her job easier. Ken sawrepparttar 103322 fixture; thought paper would work just as well and asked his customers. The switch to paper saved Ken’s employer about $100,000 a year and a lot of storage space. Engaged people seerepparttar 103323 fruits of their labor as their ideas are implemented. They now receive positive feedback for a “job well done.”

Any process, any product, any service can be made better in some way, somehow. One plant manager said, “It used to be that my problem solvers were solelyrepparttar 103324 management team, but now my problem solvers are everybody inrepparttar 103325 building.” How can you beat that?

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Chuck Yorke is an organizational development and performance improvement specialist, trainer, consultant and speaker. He is co-author of "All You Gotta Do Is Ask," a book which explains how to promote large numbers of ideas from employees. Chuck may be reached at ChuckYorke@yahoo.com


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