Encryption is a powerful tool for securing sensitive data. It’s been around since the 1970s and has become so common that most of us use it in our everyday lives without even realizing it. Encryption protects our data from unauthorized access and can help prevent security breaches or other problems with confidential information such as credit card numbers or personal health information (PHI). However, encryption isn’t perfect — its very nature means there are ways around it if an attacker wants to get at your data. Understanding these limitations is important because they affect how you should approach protecting sensitive information and communications

Data encryption is important, but it’s not perfect.

Encryption is important, but it’s not perfect. Data can be encrypted at rest or in transit. If you’re encrypting your data and then storing it in a database (or any other storage system), you can use the same key …