Despite the notion that businesses are putting more emphasis on data security to protect their sensitive information and intellectual property, many still have questions about the best ways to accomplish this. Encryption, according to one expert, is one practice that still vexes some companies.
Writing for ZDNet, Vormetric vice president Ashvin Kamaraju asserted that encryption "has become a necessary component to most enterprise data security strategies." Businesses are employing the practice to safeguard their information and achieve compliance with regulations.
However, businesses must have clear knowledge about encryption to make it most effective. This means understanding the various types of encryption – column-level, database and file-level – as well as knowing how to optimize the technology to ensure it doesn't affect performance.
Though different systems call for different levels of security, file encryption tends to have the smallest impact on performance. Such measures, which include document security and PDF protection, also guard information even if it is removed from the database, Kamaraju noted, making file encryption a solution that even novices can understand.
A study from InformationWeek found that 19 percent of businesses consider their encryption use to be "pervasive," with an additional 31 percent saying the technology has spread to mobile devices and critical data stores.
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