Congratulations 🎉
Congratulations! You’ve just finished this workshop on Encryption.
You should now be able to:
- Describe encryption and the different types
- Discuss the importance of encryption in research data management
- Choose, store, and safely backup strong encryption passwords
- Encrypt full disks, USB drives, and individual files and folders
Related Workshops
- Take McMaster’s Information Security Training Workshop
- This course only takes about 1 hour!
- It covers:
- Essential cyber security resources at McMaster
- Phishing awareness
- Password and MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) guidance
- Tips for securing laptops, phones, computers, and firewalls
- Wi-Fi security advice
- An overview of McMaster’s information security incident response
- Additional content for researchers, research support staff, and aspiring researchers
- Take a look at our other SCDS workshops here!
Additional Resources
To learn more about any particular topic, take a look at the links below.
Further reading
More how-to guides
- Cryptography courses on LinkedIn
- Free short course on cryptography from CSU’s IT Master’s
- Google IT Support Certificate’s video on cryptography
Encryption support at McMaster
- Visit Research Data Management’s website, especially our page on security.
- Or contact us directly!