If your privacy and internet security are essential to you, you probably need it to be on your Honor 9 as well. In fact, our phones are being used more and more instead of our phones. computers and important data pass through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Ensuring that your mobile phone is a real safe can therefore be a coherent and judicious choice. To do this, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Honor 9? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the measures that you can activate to secure the files of your Honor 9 and how to access them when they are locked. .
What is the point of encrypting data on an Honor 9?
We therefore start this article by briefly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Honor 9. We will already come back to the term describe for those of you who are not familiar with this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files is basically the same protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make files unreadable 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 files.
Either way and the system you choose to use, each will have its pros and cons, some are heavier to set up, harder to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your files. On the other hand, it will also be more difficult for a person who steals your Honor 9 from you or who has access to it to get hold of your data.
To make it easy, each Honor 9's encryption mechanism is adapted to different needs, in the event that you do not have very personal things on your smartphone, it is not worthwhile to embark on encryption of all your data. as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to judge objectively, according to your needs and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt the data of an Honor 9?
We therefore start by revealing the different solutions available to you. to encrypt your Honor 9 files . We will show them to you in order from most basic to most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Honor 9.
Encrypt your Honor 9 using facial recognition
First of the possibilities that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Honor 9. 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 concern, 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 you want to use it just to put an easy security on your Honor 9, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your Honor 9 using a password, a visual diagram or a fingerprint
We decided to put these different encryption options for Honor 9 together in the same section since they all provide a similar and very correct level of security. These three alternatives differ, one will be in a very simple way 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 define and which is particularly difficult to understand. "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 Honor 9. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone to a loved one and allow them to use it even if you are not. not with him, something impossible with the imprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your smartphone.
Encrypt all the data on your Honor 9 using encryption
The last alternative, and, you will understand, the one that ensures maximum security is encrypt your Honor 9 with a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your smartphone which will be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Honor 9, it may exceed an hour. We therefore recommend this alternative for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that 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 Honor 9
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Define a password and validate the operation
- 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 your Honor 9?
As regards the data decryption of an Honor 9 , you will have understood it, each encryption manipulation has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create an unlocking or file access solution and this last one that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget or else you risk losing access to your files forever. files.
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