Most IT professionals rate the pain of managing encryption keys as severe, according to a new survey by the Ponemon Institute. On a scale of 1 to 10, respondents said that the risk and cost associated with managing keys or certificates was 7 or above. As organizations use more encryption, they also end up with more keys, and more varieties of keys. For the first time in the history of the survey, the proportion of the IT budget going to encryption has dropped. The biggest growth last year was in healthcare and retail, two sectors hit by public security breaches.”]
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