Encryption

AWS CISO Stephen Schmidt said that the move to a hybrid work environment due in part to the pandemic has led to a need among companies and government agencies to protect their communications across multiple remote locations.

While government agencies and standards bodies are racing to test and vet new quantum resistant algorithms for widespread consumption, a small but growing industry of vendors has popped up offering to sell such protections to the broader public. What should potential buyers make of such offerings?

New research by Thales on security trends one year into the pandemic found that about half of businesses store more than 40% of their data in external cloud environments. The percentages for encryption of sensitive data in the cloud is less encouraging however.

The new cryptographic standards will likely underpin IT design and guide industrial purchasing decisions for decades to come.

Malware operators have also been adopting TLS for essentially the same reasons as legitimate companies: To prevent defenders from detecting and stopping the deployment of malware and data theft.

As the United Kingdom reignites the debate over data encryption, concern about trickle down impact to businesses emerge.