256 Bit Encryption
Do Not Use old and deprecated Cryptography Algorithms. Hackers will scan for known vulnerabilities first and the quickest most common attacks are from known vulnerabilities. Do your due diligence and make sure 256 AES Encryption is utilized wherever possible. All End Point Workstations should have an Operating System Drive with 256 Bit AES Encryption minimum. This will combat hackers who try to retrieve data from the drive or hack local passwords. If you forget your password on your home computer typically that password is stored somewhere on your hard drive that can be cleared by using many different bootable free software. Truth of the matter is you cannot claim your computer is secure if it is indeed not encrypted with a full disk encryption. But convenience typically outweighs Security when talking about home computers. Data Security and Information Security is more important now than ever. Having that extra layer of protection especially in business is key for a healthy security posture. Remember protecting Data, Networks, Systems, People, and Infrastructure are all very important components to Security. Make sure you are using 256 Bit Encryption for your WiFi Networks as well. Security through obscurity will only get you so far. Make sure all drives are secured physically and are fully encrypted including Removable Storage Drives. You don’t want your data growing legs so make sure your Drives are encrypted and password protected. You typically want to find USB Drives that utilize FIPS Compliant Cryptography which will be e minimum 256 bit AES in most cases.
Although WPA2 and WPA2 Enterprise have their vulnerabilities it is still incredibly important to have your wifi encrypted. VPNs are great ways to protect yourself at certain layers of the OSI Model but always remember the ONLY way to make a Computer or Network 100% Secure you would first need to NOT have a Computer or a Network lol..
Quite possibly the most intriguing future threat is the landscape of Quantum Computing. It is honestly going to be savage to move and decrypt data at lightning fast speed. Our current way of doing things will become obsolete like Dial Up became nye. I suspect we will master space travel we will master Quantum Computing. If you really think about it we are all just utilizing a bunch of objects that go pew pew pew with electrical signals and we all still complain when an app doesn’t load lol. Security is so much more important than convenience but Convenience is so insanely important your best people will leave a company just because of overbearing their security controls and safeguards actually are. You need two factor authentication in most login scenarios to optimize your security posture but you can control and maintain sessions without logging people out every 10 minutes lol Screen Locks mitigate this while also meeting their own parameters for security. A strong 256 bit encryption will always aid in combatting hackers. TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt are great opensource solutions that I think are out of production now but once upon a time they were solid pre-boot authentication and full disk encryption options for the free security nation peeps out there lol Don’t make it easy for the hackers they always say.
