If your privacy and your internet security are essential for you, you probably need it to be as well on your Sony Xperia 5. Indeed, our mobile phones are being used more and more instead of our computers and important data are stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Making your smartphone a real safe can therefore be a coherent and judicious choice. For this, you will have to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Sony Xperia 5? To do this, we will help you by first showing you the importance of these security measures, after that, all the actions that you can activate to secure the data on your Sony Xperia 5 and how to access it when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Sony Xperia 5?
We start this article by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Sony Xperia 5. We will first of all come back to the concept and describe for those of you who do not know this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting data is in fact a matter of protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make the data indecipherable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent a third party from reaching your data.
Anyway and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more complex to decipher and therefore longer for you to get your hands on. on your data. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Sony Xperia 5 or has access to it to get hold of your data.
To make it easy, each Sony Xperia 5 encryption method has different expectations, in the event that you do not have very personal things on your mobile phone it is not worth going into encryption of all your. datas as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to analyze personally, according to your expectations and your desires the appropriate level.
How to encrypt the data of a Sony Xperia 5?
We start by therefore showing you the different methods that exist to encrypt the data of your Sony Xperia 5 . We will reveal them to you in order from the most basic to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Sony Xperia 5.
Encrypt your Sony Xperia 5 using facial recognition
First of the alternatives that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Sony Xperia 5. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it certainly has advantages, such as being very quick to access your data, only work with you. However, there is a serious problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
That said, in the event that you are not afraid that someone is accessing your data and that you want to use it just to put an easy security on your Sony Xperia 5, you can configure it very quickly in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.
Encrypt your Sony Xperia 5 with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We decided to bring together these different encryption solutions for Sony Xperia 5 in the same part because they all provide a similar and very correct level of security. These three options differ, one will simply be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your phone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will set up and which is particularly difficult to “hack”, and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three options will have the same functionality, preventing stranger from accessing your Sony Xperia 5. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your mobile phone to a loved one and give them the possibility of using it even. if you're not with him, that's impossible with the imprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your mobile phone.
Encrypt all data on your Sony Xperia 5 using encryption
Last solution, and, you will understand, the one that allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Sony Xperia 5 using a data encryption system , you will then have all the data of your mobile phone which will be encrypted, this intervention takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Sony Xperia 5 it may require several hours. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we suggest you use the application SSE , who will be able to assist you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Sony Xperia 5
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and validate the procedure
- You will now be able to access it only through the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of its Sony Xperia 5?
Concerning decryption of data from a Sony Xperia 5 , you will have realized it, each encryption technique has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a technique of unlocking or access to files and this last one that you must imperatively write down on a piece of paper and not forget or else you risk losing access to forever. your data.
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