Encryption Isn’t Enough: Five Vital Protection Steps
While still considered the most crucial aspect of data protection, encryption alone will no longer keep your data safe from hackers and thieves. If businesses don’t develop a multi-faceted arsenal of security weapons, they are easy targets for data theft.
Encryption is a powerful weapon in the CIO’s data protection arsenal. But the multi-faceted threats abound today reveal that it is not the only way to reliably protect your data.
“Encryption is the best way to secure data against eavesdropping,” says Bruce Schneier, founder of Counterpane Systems and one of the world’s authorities in cryptology and security. But encryption can’t help if you want to protect your valuable business data against other threats, he warns.