Data security is seen as an essential issue in the modern society. There are several ways to send data via the internet. Therefore, there needs to be data security between the sender and the recipient. One method of concealing information within other forms of media so that it is undetectable is steganography. Images are typically regarded as cover media in steganography owing to their high representational redundancy and widespread usage online. Because of their tiny size, content versatility, and visual robustness, images are frequently used in cover media. This makes them an excellent medium for sending covert messages throughout the internet. In this work, edge-based steganography is used to conceal data in an image by hiding it in the image’s edge pixels. The edge detection process uses the Canny Edge Algorithm. With this approach, the total quantity of data to be embedded is taken into consideration while choosing edges; that is, the more data to be incorporated, the more weak connections in the image are used for embedding.