If your privacy and your internet security are essential to you, you probably want it to be too on your Huawei Nova 5. Indeed, our phones are being used more and more instead of our laptops. and essential data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Ensuring that your device is a real safe can therefore be a logical and relevant choice. For this, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Huawei Nova 5? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the measures you can implement to secure the data on your Huawei Nova 5 and how to access it when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Huawei Nova 5?
We therefore start this tutorial by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Huawei Nova 5. We will first of all come back to the concept and 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 who will use codes to make the data unreadable without the decryption code. You can also much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your data.
Either way and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to configure, more complex to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your data. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Huawei Nova 5 or has access to it to recover your data.
To make it easy, each Huawei Nova 5 encryption mechanism corresponds to different expectations, in the event that you do not have very important things on your smartphone, it is not worth going into encrypting all your data. as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to define the appropriate level personally, according to your expectations and your desires.
How to encrypt the data of a Huawei Nova 5?
We start by showing you the different methods available to you. to encrypt the data of your Huawei Nova 5 . We'll 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 Huawei Nova 5.
Encrypt your Huawei Nova 5 using facial recognition
First of the possibilities offered to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Huawei Nova 5. This is the solution that we recommend the least to you, it obviously has advantages, such as being very quick to access your data, only work with you. However, there is a serious problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
Having said that, in the event that you are not afraid that someone is accessing your data and that it is just to put an easy security on your Huawei Nova 5 that you want to use it, you can configure it very simply in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your Huawei Nova 5 using a password, a visual diagram or a fingerprint
We decided to bring together these different encryption possibilities for Huawei Nova 5 in the same part because they all guarantee a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like the one on 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 determine 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 Huawei Nova 5. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone to a loved one and allow them to use 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 smartphone.
Encrypt all data on your Huawei Nova 5 using encryption
Last option, and, you will have assimilated it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Huawei Nova 5 with a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your smartphone which can be encrypted, this intervention takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Huawei Nova 5 it can take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we advise you to use the application SSE , who will be able to accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Huawei Nova 5
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose 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 Huawei Nova 5?
As regards the decryption of data from a Huawei Nova 5 , you will have realized it, each encryption manipulation has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. Nevertheless, for each of them you will create a method of unlocking or access to files and the latter that you must imperatively write down somewhere and not forget or you risk losing access to your data forever. .
If you ever want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Huawei Nova 5, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Nova 5.
