PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS
Organizations evaluating enterprise file security often begin with practical questions: How will encryption affect employees? What happens when files are copied or shared? Can existing applications continue to be used? What happens during a cyberattack or Internet outage?
The following answers provide a brief introduction to how TeraCryption approaches these challenges, with links to more detailed information about each subject.
1. What problem does enterprise file encryption solve?
Confidential business files often move beyond the systems originally used to create or store them. They are copied to computers, shared folders, servers, cloud storage, and other working environments. Enterprise file encryption protects the information at the file level so security can remain with the file as it moves through normal business operations.
2. Why protect individual files instead of relying only on disk, server, or cloud encryption?
Disk, server, and cloud encryption can provide important protection for the environment where information is stored. File-level encryption adds another layer by protecting the individual file itself, helping maintain protection when the file is copied, moved, shared, or stored somewhere else.
3. Can enterprise file security work without disrupting employees?
Yes. TeraCryption provides Enterprise Transparent File Encryption (ETFE), allowing authorized employees to continue using Windows Explorer and their familiar business applications while TeraKey performs the required encryption and decryption operations automatically. Security becomes part of the normal file workflow rather than a separate task employees must perform.
4. What happens when an encrypted file is copied, moved, or shared?
A TeraCryption-protected file remains encrypted when it is copied or moved. Possessing a copy does not automatically provide permission to decrypt it. This allows organizations to maintain file-level protection even when confidential information must move between authorized users or storage locations.
5. Can encrypted files be stored in different locations?
Yes. TeraCryption-protected files can be maintained in customer-controlled computers, servers, network storage, and supported cloud-storage environments, depending on the organization's deployment and workflow. Because protection is applied to the file, security does not have to depend solely on where that file is stored.
6. Do employees have to manage encryption keys?
No. TeraCryption was designed to remove manual key-management tasks from normal users. Automatic Key Management™ handles the required security functions as part of the TeraCryption platform, allowing employees to work with protected information without creating, exchanging, rotating, or manually managing encryption keys.
7. How can a company prevent unauthorized people from opening confidential files?
Encryption alone is not enough; the organization must also control who is authorized to decrypt the information. TeraCryption combines file-level protection with authenticated users, security Groups, permissions, revocation, and File Ownership controls so possession of a protected file does not by itself provide access.
8. Can TeraCryption work with the systems a company already uses?
Yes. TeraCryption is designed to complement rather than replace existing enterprise systems. Organizations can continue using document-management platforms, SaaS applications, cloud storage, CAD systems, LIMS, and other business applications while TeraCryption protects confidential files throughout the organization's working environment.
9. How can TeraCryption help when encrypted files are attacked or tampered with?
TeraCryption uses multiple protection and recovery mechanisms. TeraKey verifies encryption operations, while organizations using TeraBackup gain an additional integrity safeguard: a tampered TeraKey-encrypted server file that fails verification is not accepted as the replacement cloud backup copy and is moved to quarantine.
10. What happens to protected files during an Internet or service interruption?
The files remain encrypted and protected. For organizations requiring access to critical information during an extended interruption, TeraCryption can also provide controlled emergency offline recovery for authorized administrators through the TeraKey Decryptor.
11. Where does TeraCryption fit into an organization's existing IT environment?
TeraCryption adds a file-security layer to the organization's existing infrastructure and workflows rather than requiring the enterprise to rebuild its IT environment around an encryption product. Deployment can use supported cloud-storage environments or customer-controlled server infrastructure according to operational requirements.
12. Can an organization test TeraCryption with its own files and workflows?
Yes. A Proof of Concept (POC) allows an organization to evaluate TeraCryption using its own users, files, applications, and security requirements. Customers can directly observe encryption, authorized and unauthorized access, sharing, revocation, and other capabilities before proceeding with production deployment.
13. Does TeraCryption take custody of the confidential files it protects?
No. Customers retain custody of their confidential business files. Protected files remain within storage environments selected by the organization, while TeraCryption provides the encryption, authorization, access-control, and security functions required to protect them.
14. How is TeraCryption different from a conventional encryption utility?
TeraCryption is an Enterprise File Security Platform, not simply a utility for encrypting and decrypting individual files. It combines file-level cryptographic protection with access control, sharing, revocation, File Ownership, secure delivery, automated key management, and enterprise deployment capabilities.
15. How can engineering companies protect CAD files without changing their CAD applications?
TeraCryption protects CAD project files without requiring encryption plugins or modifications to the CAD application itself. Engineering teams can continue working with familiar CAD applications and project structures while TeraCryption provides file-level encryption and controlled access to protected engineering information.