Securing Sensitive Digital Data Techniques

This paper identifies the correct and wrong approaches of securing digital data. It also proposes further ways of increasing the overall security of data transfer and storage. The variety of data can be encrypted either for comparison only purposes or for further active reuse and update, which implies the need of having a different approach when processing the data flow. Several effective models and techniques of encrypting sensitive digital information are presented in this paper, that excludes all reviewed bad practices.