Optical Encryption: What it is and Why you Need it Now

Have you been to our blog lately? In case you need a reminder of how it covers timely and highly relevant topics for you and your customers, here’s an overview of a recent article on optical encryption.

It is no secret protecting data is necessary no matter what type of company or what type of data may be protected with an increasing amount of sensitive and mission-critical data in flight round-the-clock.

Boosting security without hindering network performance is only a small part to data encryption. While adding a valuable layer of security, there are many traditional practices of optical encryption that can hinder performance of the network, and managing encryption keys.

Taking into consideration multiple aspects of Layer 1 include: Encryption, IEEE MacSec, Hardware Vendor Security Protocol, IPSec AES GCM2, and Hardware Vendor Overlay Transport Control Plane Protocol.

For many businesses, these new-wave optical encryption solutions help to add a layer of data protection it may not have beforehand. Improving business and customer data security means finding the right provider with solutions that both enhance your security posture while simplifying associated processes.