"Going Dark" – No Easy Answers On The Cybersecurity Horizon

It is difficult to name another technology as ubiquitous yet simultaneously misunderstood as encryption. At the risk of cliché, encryption is truly everywhere. It is used inside the credit and debit cards you carry, the fob with which you access your home or office, the keys you use to unlock your car and the passes you use to ride public transportation. Encryption can prevent a nosey neighbour from sniffing your Wi-Fi traffic or create a secure tunnel back to your work network while travelling abroad. With encryption, you can protect the contents of your laptop, tablet, smartphone or external storage by making its contents indecipherable to a third party without the decryption key. It secures websites, phone calls, video content, Bluetooth connections, and any number of other devices and technologies that you rely on every day.