Analysis of Various Techniques of Steganography for Embedding and Securing Data

Data has become vulnerable to attackers and viruses so that security of the data has become main purpose now days. The steganography is a proficient technique to secure the data and has a long history but now the steganography has changed a lot. In modern steganography the digital carrier, electronic text, disk space, network packets, digital images, digital videos, digital audio etc are used for hiding the data. This study is organized with an objective to have an overview to steganography and its various types. The techniques for image steganography are also discussed in this work