Increasing mandates around the security of personal data have made encryption for every business. Australian businesses are leading the world in the use of encryption to protect backups, payment-related data, and laptops – and yet they still have a long way to go before encryption is both ubiquitous and manageable.
We spoke with Richard Moulds, the vice president of product strategy at Thales e-Security, at the recent RSA Conference held in San Francisco about the role of encryption in a number of different security issues.
Anthony Caruana | 28 Apr | Read more
If deployed correctly, encryption does not need to be a headache. Instead, encryption can be an enabler to achieve the flexibility, compliance and data privacy that is required in today's business environments.
Steve Pate, CTO and co-founder of HighCloud Security | 30 Apr | Read more
The risks of data privacy, residency, security and regulatory compliance remain significant barriers to cloud adoption for many enterprises. While encryption seems like an obvious solution, historically the technology produced usability issues for cloud applications. To complicate matters, putting encryption into the hands of cloud service providers still left the enterprise open to risks such as insider fraud, hacking and disclosure demands from law enforcement.
Debabrata Dash, Ph.D., chief scientist and architect, CipherCloud | 09 Apr | Read more
A string of high-profile data breaches in 2012, from LinkedIn to Global Payments, have kept enterprise data security in the limelight. But most organizations still tend to be reactive and focus on firefighting when it comes to data security, rather than implementing a more effective long-term strategy. Let's examine the four most common pitfalls of this short-sighted approach.
Ashvin Kamaraju, VP product development and partner management, Vormetric | 24 Dec | Read more