If your privacy and security on the internet is important to you, you probably want it to be important on your Sony Xperia 5 IV as well. Indeed, we are using our phones more and more instead of our computers and important data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...
Making your smartphone a real safe can therefore be a coherent and useful choice. In this context, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Sony Xperia 5 IV? In this context, we will help you by first presenting the interest of these security measures, then all the measures that you can implement to secure the files of your Sony Xperia 5 IV and how to access them when 'they are locked.
Why is it wise to encrypt data on a Sony Xperia 5 IV?
So we start this tutorial by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Sony Xperia 5 IV. We will already come back to the term reveal 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 make the files indecipherable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your files.
Whatever it is 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 longer for you to reach your files. On the other hand, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Sony Xperia 5 IV or who has access to it to recover your data.
To make it easy, each Sony Xperia 5 IV encryption method corresponds to different needs, if you ever don't have very personal things on your mobile phone, there's no need to start encrypting all your data like if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to judge subjectively, according to your needs and your desires, the appropriate level.
How to encrypt data from a Sony Xperia 5 IV?
So we start by showing you the different techniques that are available to you. to encrypt the files of your Sony Xperia 5 IV . We will present them to you in the order of the simplest to the most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Sony Xperia 5 IV.
Encrypt your Sony Xperia 5 IV via facial recognition
First of the options available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Sony Xperia 5 IV. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it certainly has advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you. That said, there is a significant problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, if ever you are not afraid that someone will access your files and it is just to put an easy security on your Sony Xperia 5 IV that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.
Encrypt your Sony Xperia 5 IV using a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint
We decided to collect these different encryption alternatives for Sony Xperia 5 IV in the same section because they all guarantee a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three options are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your mobile phone will ask you for when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will define and which is particularly complicated to " hacker", and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify...
These three solutions will have the same function, prevent access to a third party to your Sony Xperia 5 IV. That said, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your mobile phone to a relative and give him the possibility of using it even if you are not with him, something impossible with the imprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your mobile phone.
Encrypt all the data on your Sony Xperia 5 IV using encryption
Last option, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Sony Xperia 5 IV with a data encryption system , you will have in this situation all the data of your mobile phone which will be encrypted, this intervention requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Sony Xperia 5 IV this can exceed the hour. We therefore recommend this alternative for people for whom the security of their files is fundamental. To encrypt them, we advise you to use the application SSE , who will have the opportunity to accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Sony Xperia 5 IV
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and complete the process
- You will now be able to access it only via the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt data from Sony Xperia 5 IV?
Concerning decrypting data from a Sony Xperia 5 IV , you will have assimilated it, each manipulation of encryption has its advantages and its disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. That said, 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. .
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