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The global Encryption Software market size is expected to grow from USD 9.8 billion in 2021 to USD 25 billion by 2027, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17% from 2021 to 2027 in the post-COVID-19 scenario.
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Ring adds end-to-end video encryption to its doorbells and security cameras at CES 2021 – CNET
Chris Monroe/CNET This story is part of CES, where our editors will bring you the latest news and the hottest gadgets of the entirely virtual CES 2021.
Smart home company Ring on Wednesday introduced end-to-end-encryption for its video doorbells and home security cameras. Launched as a "technical preview," Ring's end-to-end video encryption will roll out to existing customers starting today. The feature is available on an opt-in basis.
CNET temporarily stopped recommending Ring products in December 2019 due toprivacy and security concerns, specifically itspartnerships with law enforcement in the USanduser data that was exposed in late 2019. Ring has updated its policies since, including making privacy and security settings more accessible viaa Control Center dashboardandintroducing mandatory two-factor authentication.
The Amazon-owned company's latest move to improve video encryption is another promising step toward users retaining control of their recorded video files. Still, it isn't the first company to offer it. Apple's HomeKit Secure Video platform also supports end-to-end encryption.
Ring says it already encrypts videos when they're uploaded to the cloud and when they're stored on its servers. End-to-end encryption gives customers "an additional lock" that only a customer can unlock on the phone associated with their Ring account. That means Ring and Amazon won't be able to decrypt and then view customer videos if this feature is used, even for law enforcement officials, a Ring representative said over email.
Ring also confirmed that customers can't submit end-to-end encrypted videos through the Neighbors Public Safety Service Video Request portal. That portal is used as part of Ring's Neighbor's program, which enables customers to share video footage with law enforcement agencies. Customers using Ring's end-to-end encryption feature would need to decrypt the video before sharing it with police.
To find your current encryption settings and to opt in to end-to-end encryption, visit the Ring app's Control Center and check out the Video Encryption page. I'll report back on what it's actually like to enroll in Ring's end-to-end encryption shortly, so stay tuned for updates.
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Encrypted Phones iPhone and Android Encryption – Reader’s Digest
Don't let the term "encrypted phone" intimidate you. It's a feature you probably already have and use on your phone without knowing itand that's a good thing.
Encryption may sound like a tech buzzword, but even if youre not tech-savvy, encryption is probably a very important part of your life. More than likely, your bank, credit card companies, and even some social media sites that you may use, including WhatsApp, incorporate encryption to protect your data. Your phone probably has this capability, too. Heres what an encrypted phone means and how to use it to protect yourself from identity theft.
Encrypting your device means that the data (such as credit card info, social security numbers, addresses, or any other extremely personal information) that is entered into the phone will be jumbled up, making it indecipherable to anyone who might be trying to steal your information. To unjumble the information, it has to be unlocked using a password, PIN, or another key that identifies you as the owner of the information, according to Tom Kirkham, founder and CEO of IronTech Security.
When you set a pin or passcode on your device and set up fingerprint or facial recognition, this is used to generate the key for encrypting and decrypting your device, says Jack Mannino, CEO at nVisium, a Virginia-based application security provider.
Want to be extra safe? Here are eight apps security experts would never have on their phones.
Encrypted phones make it much harder for cybercriminals to gather your personal information because it is very difficult to decode encryption. Is encryption foolproof? Device encryption is an added layer of security and a necessary step to keep hackers away; more often than not, cybercriminals are going to see a device is encrypted and just move on because its too much work, says Kirkham. That said, nothing is 100 percent foolproof when it comes to cybersecurity, he reminds us.
There are a couple of downsides to cell phone encryption. An important thing to keep in mind is that it does slow down your phone, depending on the amount of data and the age/speed of the phone, says Tim Koster, tech expert and founder of CleverCreations.
A bigger caveat is that should you ever forget your PIN/password to your phone when it is encrypted, it is impossible to retrieve your data, Koster says. A backup would be the only way to retrieve the data.
Both Android and iPhone devices fully support encryption out of the box nowadays, so there isnt much need for third-party encryption apps, advises Koster.
When your iPhone is locked, personal information is automatically encrypted, as is any data on the iCloud. Find out how to do it and the other iPhone privacy settings you should check right now.
Setting up encryption on your Android device is easy, even for those that dont usually change the default setting on their phones. While there are many different types of Android phones and the menu options vary, these directions should get you to where you need to go without a lot of steps.
Open the Settings app.
Tap the search bar and type in encrypt.
Choose the encryption option
Follow the onscreen instructions
Some Android devices, such as certain models from Vivo, Huawei, and OPPO cant be encrypted. If you try the steps and you cant find an encryption option, contact your service provider. They will be able to determine if your phone can be encrypted or not.
Encryption can take up to an hour and cant be interrupted, so you wont be able to use your phone. Make sure your phone is plugged in while it is encrypting to prevent it from dying, too. If your phone dies while it is finishing the process you may lose all of your data.
Since the data on your phone can be viewed as unencrypted when your phone is unlocked, it is important to make sure the method to unlock your phone is strong, just in case it ever gets lost or stolen. For example, a weak password like 123456) or PIN like 0000 may put a device at risk regardless of the encryptions strength. Make the password or PIN more complex, or use face recognition, your fingerprint, or a pattern to unlock your phone. Even with encryption, hackers can still do these four things with just your phone number.
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Millions Flock to Telegram and Signal as Fears Grow Over Big Tech – The New York Times
Neeraj Agrawal, a spokesman for a cryptocurrency think tank, has typically used the encrypted messaging app Signal to chat with privacy-minded colleagues and peers. So he was surprised on Monday when the app alerted him to two new users: Mom and Dad.
Signal still had a subversive shine to it, said Mr. Agrawal, 32. Now my parents are on it.
On Telegram, another encrypted messaging app, Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right Proud Boys group, had just announced his return. Man, I havent posted here in a while, he wrote on Sunday. Ill be posting regularly.
And on Twitter, Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, also weighed in last week with a two-word endorsement: Use Signal.
Over the past week, tens of millions of people have downloaded Signal and Telegram, making them the two hottest apps in the world. Signal allows messages to be sent with end-to-end encryption, meaning no one but the sender and receiver can read its contents. Telegram offers some encrypted messaging options, but is largely popular for its group-based chat rooms where people can discuss a variety of subjects.
Their sudden jump in popularity was spurred by a series of events last week that stoked growing anxiety over some of the big tech companies and their communication apps, like WhatsApp, which Facebook owns. Tech companies including Facebook and Twitter removed thousands of far-right accounts including President Trumps after the storming of the Capitol. Amazon, Apple and Google also cut off support for Parler, a social network popular with Mr. Trumps fans. In response, conservatives sought out new apps where they could communicate.
At the same time, privacy worries rose over WhatsApp, which last week reminded users in a pop-up notification that it shares some of their data with its parent company. The notification set off a wave of anxiety, fueled by viral chain messages that falsely claimed that Facebook could read WhatsApp messages.
The result was a mass migration that, if it lasts, could weaken the power of Facebook and other big tech companies. On Tuesday, Telegram said it added more than 25 million users over the previous three days, pushing it to over 500 million users. Signal added nearly 1.3 million users on Monday alone, after averaging just 50,000 downloads a day last year, according to estimates from Apptopia, an app-data firm.
Weve had surges of downloads before, said Pavel Durov, Telegrams chief executive, in a message on the app on Tuesday. But this time is different.
Carl Woog, a spokesman for WhatsApp, said that users privacy settings had not changed and that rumors about what data is shared were largely unfounded.
Whats not changing is that private messages to friends and family, including group chats, will be protected by end-to-end encryption so that we cannot see them, he said.
The rise of Telegram and Signal could inflame the debate over encryption, which helps protect the privacy of peoples digital communications but can stymie the authorities in crime investigations because conversations are hidden.
Any move to the apps by far-right groups in particular has worried U.S. authorities, some of whom are trying to track the planning for what may become violent rallies on or ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. next week.
The proliferation of the encrypted platforms, where law enforcement cant even monitor the rhetoric, does allow groups that have an ill intent to plan behind the curtain, said Louis Grever, head of the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies.
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Telegram has been particularly popular for those on the far right because it mimics social media. So after Facebook and Twitter limited Mr. Trump on their services last week and other companies began pulling their support from Parler, far-right groups on Parler and other fringe social networks posted links to new Telegram channels and urged people to join them there.
In the four hours after Parler went offline on Monday, one Proud Boys group on Telegram gained over 4,000 new followers.
Dont trust Big tech, read a message on one Proud Boys group on Parler. We will need to find safer spaces.
On Signal, a Florida-based militia group said on Monday that it was organizing its chats in small, city-by-city groups limited to a few dozen people each, according to messages seen by The New York Times. They warned one another not to let in anyone they did not personally know, to avoid law enforcement officials spying on their chats.
The flood of users to Telegram, which is based in Dubai, and Signal, which is based in Silicon Valley, goes far beyond just the American far right. Mr. Durov said that 94 percent of Telegrams 25 million new users came from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.
Most of Signals new user adoption is coming from outside the United States. As of Wednesday, the company said it was the No. 1 app in 70 countries on iOS devices and in 45 countries on Android devices, with India being one of the biggest areas of new user growth. For both Signal and Telegram, new installations came from users in Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil and dozens of other countries, data from Apptopia shows.
Fears over WhatsApps privacy policies have driven Telegram and Signals popularity. While there was no meaningful change to how WhatsApp handles users data, people immediately interpreted the apps privacy notification last week to mean that it was infiltrating all kinds of personal information like personal chat logs and voice calls and sharing that data with businesses.
WhatsApp quickly said people were mistaken and that it could not see anything inside of encrypted chats and calls. But it was too late.
The whole world now seems to understand that Facebook is not building apps for them, Facebook is building apps for their data, said Moxie Marlinspike, the founder and chief executive of Signal. It took this one small catalyst to push everyone over the edge of making a change.
The fervor has been such that on Tuesday, Moses Tsali, a Los Angeles rapper, released a music video for his song, Hit Me On Signal. And Mr. Musks endorsement of Signal last week sent publicly traded shares of Signal Advance Inc., a small medical device maker, soaring from a roughly $50 million market value to more than $3 billion. (The company has no relation to the messaging app.)
Some world leaders have also urged people to join them on the apps. On Sunday, the Twitter account of President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador of Mexico talked about his new group on Telegram. By Wednesday, it had nearly 100,000 members.
Eli Sapir, Apptopias chief executive, said that while peoples concerns over Facebooks data collection were fair, WhatsApp actually uses more secure encryption than Telegram. Its like going from something high in sugar to corn syrup, he said, adding that Signal was the most secure of the three.
Meyi Alabi, 18, a student in Ibadan, Nigeria, said she was surprised this week when her mother invited her to join Signal. Her mother had downloaded the app upon urging from a friend worried about WhatsApp.
I was in shock because she got it before me, she said. We usually tell our parents about the new apps. Now all of a sudden were the ones getting informed.
Mr. Agrawal, the cryptocurrency worker, said his parents had long been active in several WhatsApp group chats with college friends and relatives back in India. He said they told him they joined Signal to follow many of those chats that were moving there, because some of the participants were worried about WhatsApps new policy.
He said he knew the dangers of the WhatsApp policy were overstated but that much of the public doesnt understand how their data is being handled.
They hear those key things data sharing, Facebook, privacy, Mr. Agrawal said, and thats enough for them to say, I got to get off this.
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Signal, the encrypted messaging app and WhatsApp alternative, explained – Vox.com
Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. Its newfound popularity is due to a convergence of reasons, including WhatsApps changing policies, violence at the Capitol that led many tech companies to deplatform Trump, and a viral tweet from the worlds wealthiest man.
Last Thursday, Tesla founder Elon Musk tweeted Use Signal and sent the valuation of the wrong company, tiny health care technology firm Signal Advance, beyond its wildest expectations. Musk had been referring to the unrelated encrypted messaging outfit, which also benefited immensely from the tweet.
Signal, for the first time, became the most downloaded app on the App Store and Google Play. The sudden growth even caused delays in getting verification codes to new Signal users.
The tweet came a day after Musk had tweeted a meme blaming Facebook for its role in the violent storming of the Capitol, in which Trump supporters, amped up on conspiracy theories about a stolen election, failed to stop Congress from certifying Joe Bidens election victory. The meme illustrates the domino effect from Facebooks beginnings as a website to rate women on campus to the Capitol being under the control of a man in a viking hat.
A few days earlier on January 4, Facebook-owned WhatsApp had issued a new privacy policy, which many interpreted would mean users would be required to share personal information with Facebooks ad network in order to use the platform. Facebook has clarified that WhatsApp messages will remain encrypted and personal information like contacts would not be shared with Facebook. Still, many users goaded in part by Musks tweet flocked to other encrypted messaging apps like Telegram (now No. 2 in the App Store) and Signal (now No. 1).
But as influential as Musk is, he isnt tweeting in a vacuum. Signals growth in popularity also came as numerous tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, began deplatforming Trump and his followers and trying to prevent their technologies from being used in service of further violence. Parler, the right wings social media alternative, was also booted from the internet; Google and Apple banned it from its app stores and Amazon Web Services stopped hosting the app on its servers.
Signal, typically praised by privacy proponents and left-wing activists, is topping the app stores along with other privacy-focused social media alternatives like MeWe. Its unclear how much the shift to these apps is being buoyed by people from the fringe right in need of new places to communicate. Thanks to the encrypted nature of the app, its hard to know (more on that below).
Previously, the number of new Signal users has rocketed up following social or political unrest. Signal downloads spiked after the election of Donald Trump, who rolled back a number of privacy protections. Downloads also grew during Black Lives Matter protests against police violence last spring, as activists strove to organize while staying safe from law enforcement.
Due to the nature of social apps and how the primary functionality involves communicating with others, their growth can often move quite quickly, based on current events, Amir Ghodrati, director of market insights at App Annie, told Recode.
The mobile data and analytics provider said demand for privacy-focused messaging apps has grown in the last few years, as internet privacy becomes a more mainstream issue and as people spend more time 67 percent more time on average in the first half of 2020 in messaging apps than on social media apps.
Signal is an end-to-end encrypted communications app, available for mobile and desktop. That means users can send texts or make phone or video calls without outsiders or the platform itself seeing the content of those messages. Intercepted messages would look like a string of garbled text and symbols.
Police, for example, would be unable to get access to Signal messages, whether those communiques included political activism or revenge porn. Protesters have preferred the platform as a way to communicate and organize without being spied on by police. A 2016 instance where a grand jury issued a subpoena for Signal data yielded minimal information: when the user registered for the service and when they last used it. Unencrypted apps would allow law enforcement visibility into the messages themselves.
Founded in 2014 by an enigmatic software engineer, white hat hacker and anarchist thinker Moxie Marlinspike, Signal is developed by a nonprofit, which means its unlikely to be acquired by, say, a big tech company. And unlike big tech companies, the service doesnt sell ads or user data. Its supported by donations, including a $50 million loan from its co-founder, Brian Acton, who also created WhatsApp. WhatsApp is encrypted using Signals protocol and was acquired by Facebook in 2014. Critics have worried that WhatsApps ownership by Facebook makes it less secure than Signal.
Signals software is open sourced, so others can download or copy it. The founders mission is for end-to-end encryption to become commonplace, even to the point where Signal isnt necessary.
If weve pushed the envelope as far as we can go and the things we develop become as ubiquitous as possible, we could all focus on other things, Marlinspike told the New Yorker in a profile in October.
While Signal has its downsides, including the fact that it notifies users every time a new contact gets the service and that you can only communicate securely if others have the app, its generally considered to have good enough privacy for regular people. That is, its easy to use and generally secure. More secure programs require jumping through more hoops.
Signal is more geared at direct communication rather than the broad communication of social media, though recently increased its group call limit from five to eight users and its group chats top out at 1,000 users. The company has also been rolling out new features like wallpaper and animated stickers. This summer, it released a tool that would automatically blur faces, so people could, say, share videos of protests without identifying the protesters.
Its possible that Signals most recent surge has been propped up by protesters this time those on the right. As social media companies are taking a more active stance on whats allowed on their platforms after the violent Capitol riots, it makes sense that those searching for new platforms would turn to ones in which their communications are kept secret.
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Mobile Encryption Market Structure, Industry Inspection, and Forecast 2025 – Business-newsupdate.com
The Mobile Encryption market report provides with a broad perspective of this business space and contains crucial insights such as current and predicted remuneration of the industry, in consort with its size and valuation over the estimated timeframe.
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Heres why Telegram does not offer end-to-end encryption by default – The Indian Express
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been very vocal about Telegrams policies and focus on privacy since rival WhatsApp received widespread flak after its new privacy policy went public. Durov also recently slammed Facebook, criticising the companys data mining methods.
The founder has now released a new post on his personal Telegram channel that clears the air about why the app does not feature end-to-end encrypted chats by default. All the information below can be found on Pavel Durovs Telegram channel (@durov).
Telegram has a Secret Chats feature that allows end-to-end encryption. However, this needs to be enabled, should the user want to make use of end-to-end encryption. By default, Telegram chats are not end-to-end encrypted. Durov insists that this is to allow these chats to be backed up in Telegrams own secure cloud storage.
This lets users have access to a number of features including sending large documents and videos, instant media forwarding without re-upload, minimising storage usage on your phone, support for multiple devices and access to chat history, which is simply put, not possible with end-to-end encryption in place.
Instead, Telegram lets its users choose whether they want their chats to be backed up on the cloud and make use of features like multi-device support. Those who favour more security over these features can opt for Secret Chats, which enable end-to-end encryption for the parties involved. For the security you get, you will miss some very basic features like taking screenshots or forwarding messages.
Telegram had recently introduced its ideas to bring ads to the platform, to help the app stay afloat and to keep Telegram running independently. However, Durov had mentioned that ads will only be coming to large channels, while one-on-one private chats and private groups will remain ad-free.
We will never force you to view 30-second ads on Telegram. If we ever introduce ads, the ads will be shown only in large one-to-many channels, which are expensive to run due to server and traffic costs, stated Durov in his post. So, no collecting private data, no user profiling etc. And if you dont use our one-to-many channels (which are non-existent in all other messaging apps), you wont see a single ad, he adds.
In yet another post, Durov also speaks about an incident from May 2016, when the FBI reportedly tried to influence the founder and bribe his engineer to make Telegram less secure. Luckily, since neither of us are US citizens, we could afford to refuse their offers and I was able to tell the public about these attempts. If we were American citizens, the FBI would have likely tried to silence us using a legal procedure called a gag order, said Durov in the post.
A gag order is essentially a legal directive that doesnt allow you to publicly disclose information related to an event. That whole story made me ask myself this question: if our team experienced such pressure during just one weeks trip to America, what kind of pressure are US-based tech companies facing every day? added Durov in the post.
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The World’s Only Processor Family with Full Memory Encryption* – PCWorld
Whether you are a large corporation or small business, protecting your customers and business data is important. There are numerous reports of computers being lost or stolen containing very sensitive information such as banking records, individuals health information, and even government FBI investigations.
With modern notebooks and desktop PCs that are never fully turned off, the threat of this data being stolen from a physical attack (sometimes referred to as a Cold Boot Attack) is high. Many security mechanisms, even drive encryption, can be defeated through this type of attack.
Through a modern, multi-layered approach to security, AMD processors help protect sensitive data from todays sophisticated attacks, help avoid downtime, and can reduce resource drain. In particular, AMD Memory Guard brings a new security feature to help address an old industry problem.
When users login to their computer many of the system secrets are stored within the DRAM, un-encrypted. With physical access to a PC an attacker may be able to chill the memory, reset the system bypassing memory clearing functions, and read the contents. As a result, the keys used for drive encryption and user passwords stored in memory can be extracted. Unfortunately, this has been an industry problem going back more than 10 years. While in recent years DDR4 memory scrambling techniques have helped somewhat they have been publicly proven to not provide an effective protection against a physical memory attack.
Up until AMD developed Memory Guard the only way to help protect against this type of attack was to completely turn the PC off after each use. In fact, many storage encryption vendors still recommend this approach today. While effective, the problem is end users expect a more responsive computing experience with the ability to leave and resume their work without ever turning their computer off.
The industry responded by pushing towards the widescale use of modern standby where a PC stays in standby mode ready to resume functioning where the user left off within seconds. This greatly improves the user experience and productivity, but it also brought back into focus the risk from physical attacks. Finding a solution to this dilemma between productivity and data security is the type of technology challenge AMD is dedicated to solving.
Businesses must look at all aspects of endpoint security as essential tools in their security defenses while also being mindful of how the modern PC is being used.
With AMD PRO security technology, users get the benefit of AMD Memory Guard, which enables system memory encryption to help reduce the threat of physical memory attacks even if a system is left in standby mode. When used in combination with other technologies, like drive encryption, TPM, and system authentication, businesses can continue to help protect data while also allowing users to be more productive by not having to shut down their PC after every use.
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Comprehensive Report on Email Encryption Market 2020 | Size, Growth, Demand, Opportunities & Forecast To 2030 – KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper
Increasing Focus on Minimizing Email Malware Attacks and Phishing to Bolster Market Growth
The email security landscape has witnessed constant evolution over the past few years and as per the current observations, the email encryption market is set to witness a major overhaul in the near future. The growth of the email encryption market was primarily being driven by privacy regulations that were curated in the 1990s and the 2000s, which leaves tremendous scope for improvement. The current email securing technologies are likely to be replaced with newer alternatives or witness major upgrades in line with modern day requirements. While current technologies fulfil basic security requirements, market players operating in the current email encryption market landscape are increasingly focusing on improving usability.
The increasing demand for secure communications is expected to remain one of the primary factors that is likely to drive innovations across the global email encryption market during the forecast period. The advent of new security solutions coupled with new protocols is anticipated to secure a safe passage for market growth for existing as well as upcoming players in the email encryption market landscape. The increasing need to minimize e-mail-basedmalware attacks, phishing activities, and spam e-mails is another major factor projected to accelerate the pace of development of new solutions.
At the back of these factors, along with the emergence of the digital era, the global email encryption market is expected to surpass the market value of US$ 25.3 Bn by the end of 2030.
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Surge in Number of Internet Users to Drive Demand
Email encryption has gained immense popularity among business enterprises from several industrial domains in recent years, owing to increasing awareness pertaining to establishing a robust email security solution. As digital communication continues to become more secure, the uptake of email encryption solutions is expected to grow at a steady pace. The demand for end-to-end encryption to safeguard privacy and sensitive has spiked at an exponential rate over the past few years due to which, players involved in the current email encryption market landscape are likely to attract a sizeable number of customers in the upcoming years.
A number of software development companies has taken a leap onto the email encryption wagon train and expressed immense interest in drastically improving the current email encryption technologies. Although email encryption has garnered immense interest in recent times, analysts at the Transparency Market Research are of the opinion that there is a wide scope for improvement in the email encryption market.
Market Players Focus on Adding New Security Layers
Data security and protection have emerged as one of the top priorities for business entities operating across various domains. With considerable rise in the number of data-based applications, end-to-end encryption has gradually become the gold standard fordata protectionand privacy across the digital communication space. A number of companies operating in the current email encryption market landscape are focusing on improving security features of their email services by adding new security layers to retain existing users and attracting a new customer base.
Over the past few years, major giants, including Google and Microsoft have announced that the companies are increasingly working toward improving security features of theiremail services. For instance, in 2018, Microsoft revealed that the company is set to integrate a new layer of encryption to Outlook the companys email service to prevent breach of data and other security lapses. Similarly, Google revealed plans of adding a new feature to the recent version of Gmail, which is expected to enable users to send e-mails to other Gmail users with an expiry date to the e-mails. Market players are projected to focus on streamlining email encryption and continue to find solutions in tandem with government as well as non-government organizations.
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Shift toward Remote Working amid COVID-19 Pandemic to Increase Demand
The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to have a moderate impact on the overall growth prospects of the global email encryption market in the first half of the forecast period. As business organizations continue to allow employees to operate from remote locations in the safety of their homes, there has been a demand for a robust email encryption solution. The significant rise in the number of e-mails that are being circulated in 2020 is another factor likely to generate considerable business for players operating in the current email encryption market landscape. The focus on minimizing phishing activities coupled with cyber-crime is likely to provide lucrative opportunities to the players operating in the current market landscape.
Analysts Viewpoint
The global email encryption market is expected to expand at a staggering CAGR of ~25% during the forecast period. The market growth is majorly driven by factors including growing awareness pertaining to the benefits of email encryption, rising number of phishing and fraudulent e-mails, demand for email encryption from various business entities of different industrial domains, and entry of new technologies. Growing focus on remote working amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is expected to provide considerable opportunities to the players involved in the current email encryption market landscape.
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What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app. – Mashable
Existing Signal users might be getting more notifications than usual. Jack is on Signal, Cathy is on Signal, Miriam is on Signal, all pings showing phone contacts who are joining the secure messaging app.
Those pings reflect the fact that theres been an influx of new users. Known for its end-to-end encryption and independent structure as a non-profit organization run by a foundation not a big tech company Signal has previously been the communication method of choice for activists, people in the hacker community, and others concerned about privacy.
Recently, its gone mainstream.
Recently, Facebook-owned WhatsApp which is end-to-end encrypted using Signals protocols began issuing a privacy update notification to users making clear that it is sharing user data with Facebook (which it has actually been doing for years). Thats led people to look elsewhere for a secure communications app, helped along by Elon Musks Jan. 7 tweet which simply stated: Use Signal.
Over the past three years, Signal has also been investing in more infrastructure and features to support its users. That's a good thing: Signal first saw an increase in users in the spring as people participating in anti-racist protests around the killing of George Floyd realized how closely law enforcement was surveilling them and asking companies to hand over user data. Its only become more popular since then. As of this writing, Signal is at the top of the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and its two-factor authentication onboarding system even got briefly delayed Thursday because so many people were trying to sign up.
So, thinking about joining Signal? Bottom line: If you care about privacy, its a good idea. Heres what you need to know.
Signal is a free, privacy-focused messaging and voice talk app you can use on Apple and Android smartphones and via desktop. All you need is a phone number to join. You can text or make voice or video calls with friends, either one-on-one or in groups, and use emoji reactions or stickers just like in other apps. But theres one big difference: Signal is actually really private.
Communications on Signal are end-to-end encrypted, which means only the people in messages can see the content of those messages not even the company itself. Even sticker packs get their own special encryption.
Signal created the encryption protocol (basically, the technical way you implement this) that other companies including WhatsApp and Skype use. Plainly put, it is the gold standard of privacy.
Yes and that privacy goes beyond the fact that the content of your messages is encrypted. You can set messages to disappear after certain customizable time frames. Plus, Signal collects virtually no data on its users. The only information you give the app is your phone number, and the company is even working on a way to decouple that from using Signal by making encrypted contact servers. If the police come knocking to Signal for data on its users, it says, truthfully, that it has no data to hand over.
Part of the reason it collects no data is because Signal is a non-profit organization, not a for-profit company. It has no advertising, so no incentive to track users. Instead, its funded by grants and private investors one of whom had a huge personal interest in making a privacy-oriented platform. Though a small group of privacy activists created Signal in 2013, it has grown in recent years. In 2018, WhatsApp founder Brian Acton donated $50 million to create the Signal Foundation, which now runs Signal. Acton got on board with the mission to make a truly private messaging service after Facebook acquired WhatsApp and Acton reportedly left the company amid clashes with Facebook over how it was eroding WhatsApps privacy.
Both Signal and WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted using the same technology. That means the content of the messages you send and calls you have are both private. However, Facebook collects lots of other information in the form of usage statistics, metadata, and more. And theres no longer a way to opt out.
Signal does not have as many fancy customization features as WhatsApp, like backgrounds. But when it comes to true privacy, there is no comparison.
You can see a full list of alternatives to Facebook-owned messaging services here.
Another app rising in popularity is Telegram. Telegram says its also all about privacy, but it actually has plenty of downsides. Messages on Telegram are not truly end-to-end encrypted by default. Plus, the fact that private groups are unlimited in size, can be joined via a link, and are explicitly not moderated has made it a hotbed for toxic and illegal content, like terrorism and revenge porn (also known as non-consensual pornography). Signal does not moderate content either, but it limits groups to 1,000, and is more about communicating with people who are actual contacts than joining groups of strangers like on WhatsApp and Telegram.
You can find Signal in Apples App Store or in the Google Play store. Its currently very easy to find since its sitting right at the top of the Free Apps chart.
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What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app. - Mashable