In the event that your privacy and your internet security are essential to you, you probably need it to be too on your Samsung XCover 4. Indeed, we always use our mobile phones more instead of our laptops and essential data pass through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Ensuring that your smartphone is a real safe can therefore be a coherent and judicious choice. For this, we will have to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Samsung XCover 4? To do this, we will help you by first showing you the importance of these security measures, then all the measures that you can activate to secure your Samsung XCover 4 files and how to access them when they are. locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Samsung XCover 4?
We therefore start this article by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Samsung XCover 4. We will first of all come back to the term describe for those of you who do not know this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files is actually the same as protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to render 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 advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more difficult 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 Samsung XCover 4 from you or who has access to it to recover your data.
To put it simply, each Samsung XCover 4 encryption mechanism has different expectations, if ever you don't have some very personal things on your phone don't bother going into encrypting all your data like you. work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to analyze personally, according to your expectations and your desires the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt the data of a Samsung XCover 4?
We start by presenting you the different methods available to you to encrypt your Samsung XCover 4 files . We will present 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 Samsung XCover 4.
Encrypt your Samsung XCover 4 using facial recognition
First of the alternatives that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Samsung XCover 4. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it obviously has advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you. However, there is an important problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, if you are not afraid that someone will access your files and if you want to use a simple security on your Samsung XCover 4, you can easily configure it in the menu. " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt your Samsung XCover 4 with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We have chosen to bring together these different encryption alternatives for Samsung XCover 4 in the same part because they all guarantee a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three possibilities differ, one will simply 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 stranger from accessing your Samsung XCover 4. However, 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 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 phone.
Encrypt all data on your Samsung XCover 4 using encryption
Last option, and, you will have assimilated it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Samsung XCover 4 using a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your phone which can be encrypted, this intervention requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Samsung XCover 4, it may take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this alternative for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend using the app SSE , who will be able to accompany you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Samsung XCover 4
- 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 via the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of its Samsung XCover 4?
Concerning decryption of data from a Samsung XCover 4 , you will have understood it, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a technique for unlocking or accessing files and this last one that you must write down somewhere and not forget or you risk losing access to your files forever.
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