If ever your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you certainly need it to be on your Honor X8 as well. In fact, we are increasingly using our mobile phones instead of our computers and important data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...
Making sure your phone is a real safe can therefore be a logical and wise choice. In this context, you will have to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt the data of your Honor X8? In this context, we are going to help you by first presenting the interest of these security measures, then, all the measures that you can activate to secure the data of your Honor X8 and how to access it when it is locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on an Honor X8?
We therefore start this guide by quickly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Honor X8. We will already come back to the concept and describe for those of you who do not know this computer concept of “Encryption”. Encrypting data actually amounts 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 choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more complex to decrypt and therefore longer for you to get your hands on your data . However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Honor X8 or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.
To make it easy, each Honor X8 encryption system is adapted to different expectations, if you don't have very important things on your smartphone it's not worth getting into encryption of all your data as if you're working for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to judge personally, according to your expectations and your desires, the appropriate level.
How to encrypt data from an Honor X8?
We start by presenting you the different methods available to you to encrypt the data of your Honor X8 . We will present them to you in order from most basic to most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by modifying the IP address of your Honor X8.
Encrypt your Honor X8 via facial recognition
First of the alternatives offered to you, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt your Honor X8 data. This is the technique that we least suggest to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to access your data, only work with you .. However, there is a major problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, if you are not afraid of someone accessing your data and it is just to put an easy security on your Honor X8 that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your Honor X8 with a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint
We have chosen to gather these different encryption solutions for Honor X8 in the same section because they all provide a close and very correct level of security. These three options differ, one will very simply be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your smartphone will ask you for as soon as you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will define and which is particularly difficult to "hacker", and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify...
These three options will have the same functionality, prevent third party access to your Honor X8. However, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone to a relative and allow him 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 smartphone.
Encrypt all the data on your Honor X8 using encryption
Last solution, and, you will understand, the one that allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Honor X8 with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your smartphone that can be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Honor X8, this may exceed an hour. We therefore suggest this option for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that you use the application SSE , who will be able to support you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Honor X8
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Define a password and validate the procedure
- You will now be able to access it only thanks to the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of your Honor X8?
As regards the Honor X8 data decryption , you will have assimilated it, each encryption solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a method of unlocking or accessing files and the latter that you must write down somewhere and do not forget or you risk losing access to your files forever. data.
If you ever want as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the Honor X8, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Honor X8.
