Security organizations worldwide, from businesses and technology providers to military and government agencies, face increasing data protection challenges, but finding security solutions that align with business applications and compliance mandates has been a challenge.

1. GLOBAL ENCRYPTION
AND KEY MANAGEMENT
2016
Breaches and cyber attacks have increased companies’urgency to
improve their security posture and this is reflected in this year’s findings
as more companies embrace an enterprise-wide encryption strategy.
KEY FINDINGS
THREATS
Encryption strategies increase
37% of respondents say that their
organization has an encryption
strategy applied consistently
across the entire enterprise.
Discovering where
sensitive data resides
Initially deploying
encryption technology
Classifying what
data to encrypt
Germany
USA
Japan
HIGHEST
LOWEST
Australia
Mexico
26%
26%
System or process
malfunction
The most
significant threats
to sensitive
data are:
Which data is
most commonly
encrypted?
What are the main drivers for using encryption
technology solutions?
37%
57%
49%
35%
30%
55%
Payment
related data
Financial services
56%
Health & pharma
49%
Services
48%
2016
15% Across entire
enterprise2005
ENCRYPTION
What industries
use encryption?
Adoption differences in enterprise
encryption strategies by country
61%
45%
40%
Support for both cloud and on-premise deployment has risen
in importance as organizations have increasingly embraced
cloud computing and look for consistency across computing styles.
56% of organizations transfer
sensitive data to the cloud whether
or not it is encrypted or made
unreadable via some other mechanism
such as tokenization or data masking.
Is data at rest in the cloud
protected by encryption?
56%
Top 3 countries that transfer
sensitive data to the cloud:
39% 44%
NO YES
KEY MANAGEMENT
FOLLOW US ON:
German, US and UK
organizations are more
likely to deploy HSMs
Perceived importance of HSMs as part
of key management over four years
The pain and risk level associated with
Key Management in all countries was
reported at 53%, with Arabia as the
highest threshold 62% and the lowest
reported by Russia 43%.
53%
No clear
ownership
Lack of skilled
personnel
Systems are
isolated and
fragmented
What makes key
management painful?
57% 49% 47%
54% 45% 37%
63% 60% 59%
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Hackers
28%
Employee
mistakes
52%
49%
Intellectual
property
62%
Employee/HR
data
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To comply with external privacy or data
security regulations and requirements
To protect information against specific,
identified threats
To protect enterprise intellectual property
To protect customer personal information
61%
50%
49%
47%
FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15
33%
39%
48% 49%
What is the biggest challenge
to encryption deployment?