Echelon X – The Future of Secure File Encryption
Introduction In a world where data breaches cost businesses an average of $4.45 Million (IBM, 2023) and ransomware attacks like Lockergoga and WannaCry continue to wreak havoc, the need for robust, secure, and efficient encryption tools has never been greater. Enter **Echelon X** – a military-grade encryption toolkit designed to protect sensitive data with zero trust, unparalleled speed, and cloud resilience. While this project is now private, this blog post provides a high-level overview of its capabilities, innovations, and the problems it solves, without revealing sensitive implementation details. The Problem: Why Echelon X Exists 1. Ransomware Chaos : Attacks like Lockergoga exploited poor memory handling, leaving keys in RAM for extraction. 2. Slow Encryption : Legacy tools like VeraCrypt are secure but painfully slow, taking hours to encrypt large datasets. 3. Single Points of Failure : Centralized key st...