Business security  How to encrypt (almost) anything  It's all
too easy to neglect data security, especially for a small
business. While bigger organizations have IT departments,
service contracts, and enterprise hardware, smaller companies
frequently rely on consumer software, which lacks the same sort
of always-on security functionality.  But that doesn’t mean that
your data is unimportant, or that it has to be at risk.
Encryption is a great way to keep valuable data safe—whether
you’re transmitting it over the Internet, backing it up on a
server, or just carrying it through airport security on your
laptop. Encrypting your data makes it completely unreadable to
anyone but you or its intended recipient. Best of all, much of
the software used in offices and on personal computers already
has encryption functionality built in. You just need to know
where to find it. In this article, I’ll show you where and how.
But first, a word about passwords  Any discussion about
encryption needs to start with a different t