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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

AES or the Advanced Encryption Standard was adopted in 2001 by the US National Institute of Standards and Testing (NIST) as the standard for symmetric encryption. The first is data encrypted throughout the lifecycle of use, which is currently more of a goal than a common practice. However, key rotation also adds complexity.

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It’s not ‘See you later.’ It’s ‘Goodbye’: Moving on from Tokenization in the age of Ransomware

CyberSecurity Insiders

data-in-use encryption, is changing the data protection landscape and could spark a cybersecurity movement that dwarfs tokenization in both usage and magnitude of impact. Tokenization was invented a little over twenty years ago in 2001 to address the risk of losing cardholder data from eCommerce platforms.