If your privacy and your internet security are very important to you, you certainly need it as well on your Samsung Galaxy A40s. In fact, we increasingly use our mobile phones instead of our computers and essential data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Making your phone a real safe can therefore be a logical and wise choice. To do this, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A40s? To do this, we will help you by explaining to you to begin the interest of these security measures, after that, all the measures that you can implement to secure the data of your Samsung Galaxy A40s and how to access it when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Samsung Galaxy A40s?
So we start this tutorial by briefly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Samsung Galaxy A40s. We will first of all come back to the term describe for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting data is in fact a matter of protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make the data inaccessible without the decryption code. You can also much more simply 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 configure, more complex to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to get your hands on your data. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Samsung Galaxy A40s or who has access to it to recover your data.
To make it easy, each Samsung Galaxy A40s encryption method corresponds to different needs, if you don't have very personal things on your phone don't bother to go into encrypting all your data as if you are working. for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to analyze subjectively, according to your needs and desires the appropriate level.
How to encrypt data from Samsung Galaxy A40s?
We start by therefore explaining the different methods available to you. to encrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A40s . We will walk you through them in order from most basic to most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Samsung Galaxy A40s.
Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A40s using facial recognition
First of the options available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A40s. This is the solution that we least suggest to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. However, there is a major problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
Having said that, if you are not afraid that someone will access your data and you just want to put an easy security on your Samsung Galaxy A40s that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu. " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt Samsung Galaxy A40s using a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We decided to collect these different encryption alternatives for Samsung Galaxy A40s in the same section because they all provide a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives differ, one will be a very simple 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your smartphone will ask you as soon as you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will set up and which is particularly complicated to "Hacker", and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three possibilities will have the same functionality, preventing stranger from accessing your Samsung Galaxy A40s. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a loved one and allow them to use it even if you are not with them, something impossible with the fingerprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your phone.
Encrypt all data on your Samsung Galaxy A40s using encryption
Last option, and, you will understand, the one that ensures maximum security is encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A40s with a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your phone which will be encrypted, this intervention requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Samsung Galaxy A40s it 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 using the app SSE , who will be able to support you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Samsung Galaxy A40s
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and confirm the process
- You will now be able to access it only by using the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A40s?
Concerning decryption of data from a Samsung Galaxy A40s , you will have understood it, each encryption method 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 this one that you absolutely must write down on a piece of paper and not forget or else you risk losing access to it forever. your data.
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