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Why encryption use doesn’t match data protection needs

Why encryption use doesn’t match data protection needs

January 31, 2017

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Too many organizations pay only lip service to the practice of encrypting important information, increasing the likelihood that they will suffer a cyber attack.

According to a new study from Osterman Research, while email encryption is a “critical” or “very important” business priority for 53 percent of organizations, it is only being used “extensively” by 40 percent of organizations.

The study, entitled “Enterprise Encryption and Authentication Usage: A Survey Report,” polled 165 IT decision makers and influencers, who manage on average 14,000 email users per organization, to assess the adoption of encryption in the context of email, file sharing and other communication practices used to share sensitive and confidential records.

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