Encrypt your data!

I was first trained in cryptography in the United States Air Force where I held a Top- Secret Clearance. My career continued in the cryptography space when I joined Entrust Technologies, which is now Entrust Datacard. Entrust is a public key infrastructure (PKI) development company. I was trained in PKI and encryption. With all of the advances in cryptography, we’re still using algorithms that were developed 30 years ago. Granted, the key sizes are larger, and NIST has begun a quantum-resistant algorithm search. We’ll talk more about quantum computing and encryption later in the chapter.

Introduction to encryption

Even in the cybersecurity space, encryption knowledge is limited. Throughout my career, I’ve been the person on the team that has been the go-to person when it comes to encryption algorithms that should be used. I’ve also realized that the cybersecurity community in general lacks the knowledge and know-how of encryption...