# Data encryption
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Data encryption helps prevent unauthorized users from reading data from a blockchain network and the associated data storage systems. This includes data that might be intercepted as it travels the network, known as *data in transit*.

## Encryption in transit
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By default, Managed Blockchain uses an HTTPS/TLS connection to encrypt all the data that's transmitted from the AWS CLI client to the AWS service endpoints.