Security Think Tank: To Encrypt Or Not To Encrypt, That Is The Question
ComputerWeekly, Thursday, September 28,2023
The Security Think Tank assesses the state of encryption technology, exploring topics such as cryptographic techniques, data-masking, the legal ramifications of end-to-end encryption, and the impact of quantum
To encrypt or not to encrypt, that is the question.
Well, you should of course be encrypting data in motion particularly where it's to be carried over a third party network such as the internet or the networks operated by data warehouses where cloud service providers (CSPs) locate their equipment.
Given remote working and the move of IT into the cloud, where your services will be operated in a multi-tenanted environment, you should be seriously looking at encrypting data flowing between systems as well as between users and systems.