If your privacy and internet security are essential to you, you probably want it to be on your Honor 8 as well. In fact, our smartphones are being used more and more instead of our laptops and important data are stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Making sure that your smartphone is a real safe can suddenly be a coherent and relevant choice. To do this, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Honor 8? To do this, we will help you by explaining to you first the interest of these security measures, then all the measures that you can activate to secure the data on your Honor 8 and how to access it when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on an Honor 8?
We therefore start this tutorial by briefly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Honor 8. We will first of all come back to the term describe for those of you who do not know this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting data actually comes down to 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 access to your data.
Anyway and the system you decide to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more difficult to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your data. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Honor 8 or has access to it to recover your data.
To make it easy, each Honor 8's encryption method 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 your data. like you work for the NSA. It's up to you to define personally, according to your requirements and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt the data of an Honor 8?
We start suddenly by showing you the different methods available to you to encrypt the data of your Honor 8 . We will show them to you in the order from the simplest to the most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Honor 8.
Encrypt your Honor 8 using facial recognition
First of the options available to you, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Honor 8. This is the solution that we advise you the least, of course it has advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. However, there is a fundamental problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, in the event that you are not afraid that someone will access your data and that it is just to put an easy security on your Honor 8 that you want to use it, you can easily configure it in the menu " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt your Honor 8 using a password, visual diagram or fingerprint
We have chosen to bring together these different encryption options for Honor 8 in the same section because they all provide a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will be a very simple 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your mobile phone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you are going to set up and which is really difficult. to "hack", and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three alternatives will have the same functionality, preventing third-party access to your Honor 8. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a loved one and give them the possibility of using it even in the in case you are not with him, which is impossible with the imprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your phone.
Encrypt all data on your Honor 8 using encryption
Last solution, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Honor 8 with a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your phone which can be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Honor 8, this may require several hours. We therefore recommend this solution for people for whom the security of their data is fundamental. To encrypt them, we advise you to use the application SSE , who will be able to accompany you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Honor 8
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Define a password and validate the operation
- You will now be able to access it only via the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of your Honor 8?
As regards the data decryption of an Honor 8 , you will have realized it, each encryption solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create an unlocking or access to files procedure and this last one that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget or else you risk losing access to your files forever. data.
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