Summary
This chapter focused on cryptography. Cryptography is one of the most powerful tools of a security professional. It offers you the ability to protect sensitive information through the use of encryption. It can also offer you the ability to verify the integrity of patches, files, and important data. In addition, cryptography makes e-commerce possible. With cryptographic solutions such as PKI, you can trust that a third party is who they claim to be. These are but a few of the solutions cryptography offers.
As a security professional, you need to able to communicate with others about cryptographic solutions and services. You don’t have to be able to write your own cryptographic algorithm. You do need to be able to offer solutions to real problems. There is not a week that goes by without a news report that lists stolen or lost media that contained personal information. As a security professional, you may be in a position to suggest that your company use full disk encryption...