Data Leakage Prevention – How to Protect Personal Data
26 March 2020Amanda J. Brook Senior Product Manager
Summary The continuously developed Internet expands the way that people can get information. However, new problems appear as well. The most important one is the data security of Internet. Following will introduce about how to protect personal data from leakage.
Besides getting different knowledge from Internet, users can exchange data, work with the help of Internet. Besides, users will save some file in computer. However, some illegal websites contains virus. If users browser these website, computer will get infected and lead to data leakage. To prevent data leakage, it’d better to protect data in computer.
Part 2: Case of Data Leakage Due to Trojan and Virus Attack
Case 1: WannaCry
On 12th May, 2017, WannaCry broke out all over the world. Over 3 hundred thousand users and 1 hundred thousand organizations in over 150 countries and areas got infected. After infected, the desktop background will be changed and many files will be locked. Then virus will inform users to pay with bitcoin to specific account to unlock the files. Now, security company has already find the data recovery method.
Case 2: FireBall
On 1st June, 2017, Check Point, a security institution, release a report that a virus named FireBall infected over 250 million PCs, which India occupied 10.1%, Brazil is 9.6% and 2.2% in USA. This virus will collect and trace users’ data with fake search engine and finally lead to data leakage.
Part 3: Personal Data Leakage Prevention Method
If the data leakage is led by the virus attack, it is necessary to protect personal data. The most basic point is to encrypt important data. To get the best data leakage prevention, the following 2 encryption software is worth to try.
1. Renee File Protector Suitable for File Transfer
Being a professional encryption software, Renee File Protector can help users to encrypt data which is going to transfer. Here, it is recommended to encrypted the data into gfl or exe format.
Renee File Protector - Overall Protection to Your Data
Easy to use Few clicks for whole folder encryption process.
Overall protection Users can hide, lock or get other protection to files in local disk or USB disk.
High Security Classified encryption method prevents data from leakage.
Compression transfer Support to compress and encrypt any files to secure the file transfer security.
Advanced self protection Provide self
Easy to use Few clicks for whole folder encryption process.
Overall protection Users can hide, lock or get other protection to files in local disk or USB disk.
High Security Classified encryption method prevents data from leakage.
Step 1: Download and install Renee File Protector.
Step 2: Set a master password for Renee File Protector.
Step 3: Launch Renee File Protector. Go to [Encrypt File] in [Common].
Step 4: Click [Add Files] or [Add Folders] accordingly. And choose the target in the pop up window. After that, please choose to encrypt the target in GFL or EXE (Differences of these two format are listed below).
Step 5: Set the saving path and the encrypted password. After settings, please click [OK] to save the settings.
2. Renee SecureSilo Suitable for Data Storage
Renee SecureSilo specializes in encrypting files and folders on PC. It can protect files and USB flash drives as well as hide files. Renee SecureSilo can place the important files into a virtual encrypted disk, which make it hardly detectable.
Easy to modify– The virtual disk is similar to USB disk. Users can access data inside immediately and close when unnecessary. Different from compression software like RAR/ZIP/7ZIP, modifying data which is protected with Renee SecureSilo will not waste your time on decompression.
Well protection – Due to the private format of the virtual disk and the AES256 algorithm, the encrypted files cannot be cracked down.
How to Password Protect Folder on Windows 10 with Renee SecureSilo:
Renee SecureSilo – Encrypt Confidential Data
Encrypt files in seconds Encrypt files with virtual encrypted disk and whole process can be finished in 1 second.
User friendly Concise interface helps users master the software in short time.
2. Enter the password to open the software. If you are a new user, you should set the password.
3. Click [Encrypt Files] > [Create Silo] to create a virtual disk.
4. Name the virtual disk and set the storage position. Then, click [Next].
5. Set a password for the virtual disk and click [Next].
6. Choose a range of the disk size and click [Next] to wait for the encryption finished.
7. Place the target files into the virtual disk.
8. Enter the password to unlock.
9. If you want to delete the virtual encrypted disk, please select related private disk and then click [Edit Silo]. Select [Delete Silo] in the menu. Then click [Yes] in the popup window and enter the password to process.
Part 4: Tips for Data Leakage Prevention
To prevent from data leakage, users should not browser any illegal websites to stay away from virus.
Besides, users should not surf Internet in public after connected to public WiFi which could be malicious.
Last but not least, users should encrypt important data regularly. Even computer gets infected by virus, the encrypted data will not be leaked.
