What Is An Encrypted Form?
Summary
The importance of protecting your personal information from hackers and identity thieves is obvious. It's not uncommon for people to have their identities stolen, credit cards maxed out, bank accounts drained, etc., but what can you do if you're a business owner? By using an encrypted form to input customer data into your website or app, the potential for cyber attacks is greatly reduced.
This post will go over why it's important to use an encrypted form and how they work.
You will learn
An encrypted form is a type of web-based form that requires data to be submitted through a secure connection. The information submitted will then be sent to the recipient with encryption, which means nobody can intercept and read your messages.
An encrypted form is different from secure forms.
"While a secure HTTPS form encrypts data in transfer, an encrypted form encrypts the stored data on top of that. There is no way to decrypt the stored submission data without the correct private key." Jotform Blog
When Would You Need An Encrypted Form?
You may need an encrypted form if you are sending sensitive information such as credit card numbers or passwords, health information, social insurance numbers, etc.
This way the message cannot be intercepted by hackers who are trying to steal identities or financial information from unsuspecting people on the internet!
An encrypted form is not needed for publicly available information from customers because there's no need to worry about somebody intercepting your messages!
In this case, a secure website form would be enough.
Five Benefits of Using an Encrypted Form
- It protects your customer data.
- It saves you money since there is no need to hire a programmer or buy an expensive encryption software package.
- Encrypted forms can be created in just a few steps with the right service provider.
- The user is not distracted by extra fields and boxes (like on shopping carts)
- It doesn't require any additional work after it has been created.
Is It Difficult to Use an Encrypted Form?
Not at all! The beauty of it is that encrypted forms are easier to use than ever before because there's usually no need for installing software or downloading files, which means people can send them from their browsers without any complicated steps.
Which Encryption Service Can You Use?
Hushmail is an easy encryption that can help with your security needs. You are provided with an encrypted email account, but you can also pay for extra features such as: forwarding to non-Hushmail addresses; two factor authentication; and more. It sends encrypted emails and allows for digital signatures.
Hushmail also provides a way for people who need to send confidential information securely, such as their social security number or credit card numbers across the internet and have it encrypted before arriving at its destination.
Hushmail does not view any of your messages in unencrypted form and will never be compelled to hand over your messages to a third party.
The next time you need to create an online form for your website, don’t forget about encryption.
Encryption is one of the most important things that can help protect confidential information you collect from clients like tax information, health information, business details, and password details, etc.
I can show you samples from accountants and health professional clients. If you are in Canada, there are options to store the information on servers in Canada (a requirement for some health professionals).
Book a 15-minute Zoom call with me to discuss encrypted forms for your business. I will not solicit your business or send you emails after our call.
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