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"Whether you're targeting Mobile Line of Business apps for the Enterprise or B2C apps for consumers, ensuring that sensitive data is encrypted is a must. These days, I can't have a serious discussion with a CIO unless I can assure her that my mobile device can protect data-in-transit and data-at-rest. You already know that Windows Phone 7 secures data-in-transit via SSL whether you're using Internet Explorer or calling a Web Service from a Silverlight app. What you may not know is how it covers the other bases."

WP7 supports a variety of encryption schemes, and Rob Tiffany's post here takes a look at the methods available to encrypt and decrypt your app's data stored on the device. Encryption can be difficult to write in without spending a lot of time, so having it available in a quick and easy method looks like it will be quite handy.

"visCrypt is a program for your Pocket PC to encrypt and decrypt any files and documents. You can secure any documents in the internal memory and on memory cards comfortably with visCrypt. Even saving of whole folders and subfolders is done quickly."

visCrypt, an encryption program that lets you select individual files on a device to protect, has been updated, adding in some new features and tweaking a few of the old. If you're paranoid about the files on your device and the built-in protections just won't do, check it out.