If your internet privacy and security are important to you, you probably want it to be on your Echo as well. Indeed, we always use our mobile phones instead of our computers and essential data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Ensuring that your device is a real safe can suddenly be a logical and useful choice. In this context, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt the data of your Echo? In this context, we will help you by explaining to you to begin the interest of these security measures, thereafter, all the actions that you can implement to secure the files of your Echo and how to access them when they are. locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on an Echo?
We therefore start this article by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Echo. We will first of all come back to the term explain for those of you who do not know this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files is actually the same as protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to render files unreadable without the decryption code. You can also much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your files.
Anyway and the system you decide to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more complex to decipher and therefore take longer for you to get your hands on your devices. files. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Echo or has access to it to get their hands on your data.
To make it easy, each Echo encryption device is suited to different requirements, in the event that you don't have some very important things on your phone, don't bother going into encrypting all of your data like if you work for the CIA. It is suddenly up to you to judge subjectively, according to your requirements and your desires the appropriate level.
How to encrypt the data of an Echo?
We start suddenly by showing you the different methods available to you to encrypt your Echo files . We will show them to you in order from most basic to most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Echo.
Encrypt your Echo using facial recognition
First of the possibilities that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Echo. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it has of course advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you. However, there is a considerable problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, in the event that you are not afraid that someone will access your files and that it is just to put an easy security on your Echo that you want to use it, you can configure it very simply in the menu " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt your Echo using a password, a visual diagram or a fingerprint
We decided to put these different encryption options for Echo together in the same section because they all provide a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three possibilities are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your device will ask you as soon as you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will determine and which is really complicated to " hacker ”, and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three alternatives will have the same functionality, preventing stranger from accessing your Echo. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a loved one and allow him or her to use it even if you are not with him, something impossible with the fingerprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your phone.
Encrypt all data on your Echo using encryption
Last alternative, and, you will have assimilated it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Echo using a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your phone that will be encrypted, this technique takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Echo it may take several hours. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we suggest you use the application SSE , who will be able to accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the app on your Echo
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Set a password and confirm the process
- You will now be able to access it only by using the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of his Echo?
Concerning decryption of data from an Echo , you will have assimilated it, each encryption technique has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you are going to create a technique for unlocking or accessing files and this last one that you absolutely must write down somewhere and remember otherwise you risk losing access to your files forever.
In case you want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Echo, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Echo.
