Let's actually encrypt the data

Hackers hack and data breaches are common. In the news we learn of stolen customer records - names, email addresses, phone numbers and more - that were stored in databases in plain text.

Let's stop that, shall we?

Drupal, with just a few contrib modules and some simple steps, lets us transform that plain text into encrypted gobbledy gook. So, instead of:

Bad! Implement these steps and have that data encrypted, looking something like this:

Good! (That gobbledy gook is actually longer, but I truncated it for brevity's sake!)

This presentation isn't aimed at cryptographers and mathematicians, it's for those of us who want to protect our users' data, but have thought it's too big a lift. (It's not!) You will see the simple steps in action and be gob-smacked at how easy it is. There's no excuse not to do it.

You may enter as a beginner, but you will leave knowing what you need to do to protect your users' data. Heck, you may even get it done before the next presentation begins! Then, you can answer, "Of course!" when your client asks the simple question, do you actually encrypt the data?