Encryption Can Get Board’s Attention
There are lots of good reasons for IT leaders to pay attention to even the finest details of encryption policies. One of the more practical is that encryption’s a board-level concept. As in, the board of directors will feel no hesitation in second guessing decisions not to encrypt data that ends up exposed.Which makes the findings in this week’s cover story on encryption all the more surprising.
Based on exclusive InformationWeek Analytics research, it finds nearly all companies use some encryption, but only 14% says it’s pervasive at their companies. A fourth have database table-level encryption. And about 3 out of 5 companies don’t encrypt mobile devices, despite their habit of disappearing loaded with confidential data.