Data Encryption Levels

Question 1

What is Data Encryption?

Answer 1

Process of converting data into a secret code to prevent unauthorized access

Question 2

What is a Full-disk?

Answer 2

Encrypts the entire hard drive to protect all of the data being stored on it

Question 3

What is a Partition?

Answer 3

Similar to full-disk encryption but it is only applied to specific parts on the storage device

Question 4

What is Volume Encryption?

Answer 4

Used to encrypt a set space on the storage medium, Creating an encrypted container that can house various files and folders

Question 5

What is a File-level Encryption?

Answer 5

Used to encrypt an individual file instead of an entire partition or an entire disk drive

Question 6

What is Database Encryption?

Answer 6

Secures the entire database. extending the encryption across multiple storage devices or cloud storage, ;like full-disk encryption

Question 7

What is Record-level Encryption?

Answer 7

Encrypts individual records or rows within a database