Military-Grade Security – How Advanced Encryption Can Protect Your Data

Military Grade Security Cloud

If you haven’t worked in the cyber security field, you probably don’t know much about advanced encryption or military-grade security. This is a service or a feature that most cyber security or cloud service providers offer as it’s the most advanced way to protect sensitive information stored on the cloud. 

So, let’s see what military-grade encryption cloud really means, and when it’s needed the most. 

What is military-grade encryption?

A type of data security, military-grade encryption actually uses advanced algorithms to protect sensitive and confidential information. With high-level cryptographic tools and techniques, it enables users to encrypt their sensitive data, such as files and other communications. 

Now, military-grade encryption refers to a specific encryption type, AES-256 (Advanced Encryption Standard). When we talk about military-grade encryption, we and most cyber security companies, actually refer to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with 256-bit keys. The AES has been pronounced in 2001 as the new standard for information security by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a unit of the US Commerce Department. 

According to the US government, AES-128 can be used for secret (but unclassified) information while AES-256 for top secret (and classified) information. But if your company or organization uses both of these, you need to adopt AES-256 as the standard.

Did all these letters and numbers confuse you? Don’t worry, that’s normal if you are not too tech-savvy. In other words, security companies wanted to give encryption a term to describe the highest-level security in such a way that everyone can understand it, so they come up with this one – military-grade encryption. 

Do you need military-grade security?

The short answer is yes, you need military-grade encryption to have the most advanced protection guaranteed if you work with personal data and have access to sensitive information too. And most companies these days have access to their users’ sensitive data, such as passwords or financial data.

This is the most advanced encryption standard available and it can only benefit your business as it shows your customers that you care about their personal data and you want to protect it with the best security.

So, not only do governmental or financial and health organizations need military-grade encryption but also companies that need specific privacy requirements for their applications or other sensitive tasks where confidentiality is a must. 

Do you need military-grade encryption

For example, communication between two parties that contain sensitive data and information (such as emails) should be protected by military-grade encryption if you want to be sure your data is protected. Just think about this, maybe those emails include confidential company documents, research studies or customers’ financial information.

The data encrypted with AES can take the best hackers decades to break into. That’s why, having military-grade encryption, you can be confident that your data and your customer’s sensitive information will stay protected at all times from unauthorized access or any other cyber threats. More than that, AES makes it so that only authorized people can access the data.

What does this all mean? Well, in other words, protecting all types of sensitive data, such as valuable or confidential information, from potential attackers with a military-grade encryption method should be a rule. Why? Cyber attacks and data breaches can happen at any time and affect all platforms, industries or apps. And one thing you can do as a business owner or CTO to keep sensitive files safe and secure is to increase your defense against cyber threats with encryption.

Haar offers military-grade encryption for all its cloud solutions

Haar military-grade security Cloud services feature a complete set of tools to manage and secure files with military-grade AES encryption, so you can be sure that the sensitive data is safe and secure before it leaves your organization. 

Having over 6 layers of firewalling and access control lists starting from the router side with fully dedicated resources, our advanced cloud solutions provide maximum security against malicious individuals and attacks.

Thanks to a dedicated IP space and VLAN, full ACL and firewall on the router, switch, virtual switch and software, Haar helps safeguard data and ensures that your company meets security requirements for data protection and encryption.