Five Mistakes of Data Encryption

Contributed by Dr. Anton Chuvakin

If you follow the media today, you might get to a conclusion that data encryption is everywhere. However, is this “good” encryption? A classic saying “Encryption is easy; key management is hard” illustrates one of the pitfalls that await those implementing encryption enterprise-wide or even SMB-wide. This paper covers some of the other mistakes that often occur when organizations try to use encryption to protect data-at-rest and data-in-transit and thus improve their security posture.

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