Security News > 2024 > January > Attribute-based encryption could spell the end of data compromise

The future of data privacy is the end of compromise.

With the world producing data at astounding rates, we need ways to put data to the best use while protecting against breaches and ensuring privacy, data protection and access control.

Compared to the prevailing coarse-grained access model of legacy encryption technologies, in which giving out a secret key essentially amounts to giving access to all the encrypted data, ABE is a more finely tuned approach that grants prescribed access of encrypted data to someone with a matching set of traits.

Both access to critical data for those with an authorized need-to-know and sustained encryption for all other data to be kept protected.

For ABE, the end goal is fine-grained access to the data itself.

ABE offers a compromise between data protection and access, and it's a category that bears watching.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/18/attribute-based-encryption-abe/