If your privacy and internet security are important to you, you probably want it to be important on your HUAWEI Mate 20 as well. In fact, our mobile phones are being used more and more instead. of our laptops and essential data are stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Making sure that your phone is a real safe can therefore be a coherent and useful choice. For this, we will have to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data on your HUAWEI Mate 20? To do this, we will help you by first showing you the importance of these security measures, then all the measures you can implement to secure your HUAWEI Mate 20 files and how to access them. when they are locked.
Why does it make sense to encrypt data on a HUAWEI Mate 20?
We begin this article by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your HUAWEI Mate 20. We will already come back to the concept and describe it for those of you who do not know this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files actually comes down to them. protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make the files indecipherable without the decryption code. You can still much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your files.
Either way 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 access your files. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your HUAWEI Mate 20 or who has access to it to recover your data.
To put it simply, each HUAWEI Mate 20 encryption device corresponds to different expectations, in the event that you do not have very important things on your phone it is not worth going into encrypting all your data. as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to subjectively analyze, according to your expectations and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt data from HUAWEI Mate 20?
We start by showing you the different methods that exist to encrypt your HUAWEI Mate 20 files . We will show them to you in order from the simplest to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your HUAWEI Mate 20.
Encrypt your HUAWEI Mate 20 using facial recognition
First of the possibilities available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your HUAWEI Mate 20. This is the solution that we recommend the least to you, it certainly has advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you .. That said, there is a serious problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
That said, in the event that you are not afraid that someone will access your files and that it is just to put a simple security on your HUAWEI Mate 20 that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt your HUAWEI Mate 20 using a password, visual diagram or a fingerprint
We have chosen to bring together these different encryption options for HUAWEI Mate 20 in the same part because they all provide a close and very correct level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your device will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will set up and which is particularly complicated to hack », And finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three possibilities will have the same functionality, preventing stranger from accessing your HUAWEI Mate 20. That said, 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 event that you are not with him, this 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 HUAWEI Mate 20 using encryption
Last option, and, you will understand, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your HUAWEI Mate 20 using a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your phone which can be encrypted, this operation requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your HUAWEI Mate 20, this may exceed an hour. We therefore recommend this solution for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we advise you to 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 HUAWEI Mate 20
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Set a password and confirm 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 its HUAWEI Mate 20?
As regards the data decryption of a HUAWEI Mate 20 , you will understand, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. That said, for each of them you will create a technique for unlocking or accessing files and this last one that you must write down on a piece of paper and not forget or you risk losing access. forever to your files.
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