OneDrive encryption tools to protect your data

Posted by Eric Elesky on August 12th, 2019

OneDrive is one of the most popular cloud storage providers and a lot of people use it in their everyday life. This cloud storage offers a wide range of benefits and possibilities. However, what do you know about OneDrive security? Is OneDrive secure enough to be trusted with confidential information? Having a habit to upload a lot of information to the cloud we need to be sure that our data won’t be compromised. Let’s take a closer look at OneDrive encryption.

As an answer for the questions “How safe is OneDrive?” or “Is OneDrive encrypted?” you can find a lot of information. But what you really need to know is that when uploading files OneDrive uses 256 bit encryption. However, when the files are at rest they are not encrypted. This feature is only available for business users of OneDrive.

So, taking into account the above-mentioned information, arises the question “What can you do to increase OneDrive security in order to ensure that your sensitive data is all protected?”