This paper focussed on the security management of an image over a network which includes user authentication, accuracy, integrity and security of the sent images. Additionally, multimedia files consist of image, audio or video as data require more attention during encryption and decryption. The Proposed layout of image encryption/decryption uses a suitable user-defined key which is designed to obtain the research objective. In this paper, a cryptographic transformation based on matrix manipulations for image encryption is introduced. The paper describes the encryption algorithmusing “Matrix Block Symmetric Transformation (MBST)”, discusses the simulation results and compares with results obtained from Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Modified Advanced Encryption Standard (MAES).