Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for inputting data. The present invention relates to the communications field and aims to improve security of input information. The method includes: acquiring, by a virtual machine manager, input data; performing, by the virtual machine manager, encryption processing on the input data according to an encryption rule of a security connection to obtain encrypted data; and sending, by the virtual machine manager, the encrypted data to the server. The present invention is applicable to a data input scenario.