The Ponemon Institute surveyed more than 5,000 business and IT managers. 61 percent said compliance was the main driver of encryption technology. Only 8 percent said that avoiding public disclosure after a data breach was a main driver. SSH keys were the most difficult to manage, SSH keys tied for first place the list with keys for clouds and other external services, with 61 percent of respondents each. The influence of IT operations, while still the biggest influence on a company’s encryption strategy, has been making a smaller impact.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3038311/report-compliance-biggest-driver-of-encryption.html