If your privacy and internet security are important to you, you probably need it to be on your ZenFone Max M2 as well. In fact, we use more and more of our mobile phones instead of our computers and important 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 coherent and judicious choice. To do this, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your ZenFone Max M2? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, after that, all the measures that you can activate to secure the data on your ZenFone Max M2 and how to access it when they are. locked.
Why does it make sense to encrypt data on a ZenFone Max M2?
We therefore start this tutorial by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your ZenFone Max M2. We will already come back to the term describe for those of you who are not comfortable with 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 easily 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 set up, more difficult to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your data. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your ZenFone Max M2 or who has access to it to get hold of your data.
To make it easy, each encryption device of ZenFone Max M2 corresponds to different expectations, if ever you don't have some very important things on your smartphone it is not worth going into encrypting all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to define subjectively, according to your expectations and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt the data of a ZenFone Max M2?
We therefore start by presenting you the different techniques that exist. to encrypt the data of your ZenFone Max M2 . We will present them to you in the order of the simplest to the most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by modifying the IP address of your ZenFone Max M2.
Encrypt your ZenFone Max M2 using facial recognition
First of the alternatives offered to you, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your ZenFone Max M2. This is the solution that we advise you the least, of course it has advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. That said, 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 is accessing your data and you want to use it just to put an easy security on your ZenFone Max M2, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your ZenFone Max M2 with a password, a visual diagram or a fingerprint
We decided to collect these different encryption options for ZenFone Max M2 in the same part because they all guarantee a close and very satisfactory level of security. These three possibilities differ, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your phone will ask you each time you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you are going to set up and which is really difficult to " hacker ”, and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three solutions will have the same functionality, preventing third party access to your ZenFone Max M2. That said, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone to a loved one and give him the possibility of using it even if you are not with him, something impossible with the fingerprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your smartphone.
Encrypt all data on your ZenFone Max M2 using encryption
Last solution, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your ZenFone Max M2 using a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your smartphone which can be encrypted, this technique takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your ZenFone Max M2, this may exceed an hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that you 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 ZenFone Max M2
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Set a password and confirm the procedure
- You will now be able to access it only by using the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of your ZenFone Max M2?
As regards the decryption of data from a ZenFone Max M2 , you will understand, each encryption solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. That said, for each of them you will create an unlock or file access procedure and this last one that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget or else you risk losing access to your data forever. .
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