DZone Security Zone
Introduction
Data security is an important aspect of the digital world. It helps to prevent data breaches, reduces the risk of data exposure, secures sensitive data, and is highly recommended for the regulatory compliance process. Within any organization, data security’s role is to ensure the safety and security of private and commercial/finance data while minimizing exposure risk. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is an encryption program that is used to encrypt and decrypt texts, files, e-mails, and directories. Many applications within an organization use CSV files to transfer huge data from one system to another. Securing this data while in transit is a key factor during data transmission. This blog will help you provide a step-by-step procedure to encrypt and decrypt a CSV file at source and destination.
We will encrypt and decrypt the following contents of a CSV file. It is a best practice to have the contents of the file within quotes to avoid any misalignment of the data while reading.
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