Maria Korolov
Contributing writer

10 encryption tips for the enterprise

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Oct 1, 20131 min

Encryption is today's hot go-to tool. Here are tips for doing encryption right

Whether you’re protecting corporate data from internal leakers, hackers looking to steal money from you and your customers, foreign spies, your own government, or employees accidentally leaving their laptops in a taxi, encryption is today’s hot go-to tool.

But encryption done wrong can be worse than no encryption at all, since it gives you an unwarranted senses of security. Here are tips for doing encryption right.

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Maria Korolov
Contributing writer

Maria Korolov is an award-winning technology journalist with over 20 years of experience covering enterprise technology, mostly for Foundry publications -- CIO, CSO, Network World, Computerworld, PCWorld, and others. She is a speaker, a sci-fi author and magazine editor, and the host of a YouTube channel. She ran a business news bureau in Asia for five years and reported for the Chicago Tribune, Reuters, UPI, the Associated Press and The Hollywood Reporter. In the 1990s, she was a war correspondent in the former Soviet Union and reported from a dozen war zones, including Chechnya and Afghanistan.

Maria won 2025 AZBEE awards for her coverage of Broadcom VMware and Quantum Computing.

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