Since 2006, the ratio of organizations with enterprise-wide encryption strategies has risen from under 20% to over 40%. A recent breach at Scottrade highlights why a lack of encryption in the cloud is such a risk for enterprises. While enterprises are making meaningful progress on improving their encryption practices, there’s still a lot of work to go. The stakes are too high for organizations to stand by and wait for an attack to happen to them before introducing a sophisticated data protection strategy, says Ponemon Institute’s Larry Ponemon.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/the-long-slog-to-getting-encryption-right