Is Your Storage Encrypted?

Source: ZDNet.com

You're exposing yourself to significant risk as long as the data on your network (data in transit) and in your storage (data at rest) is not encrypted. That's what a paranoid security specialist will tell you.
Is it true? That depends on the sensitivity of your data and on any government regulations that require the data to be encrypted--in the healthcare industry, for example.

But the number of people out there who want to steal, tamper with, or destroy your data is going up, not down. And the chances are growing that you'll be targeted for such an attack either randomly or because the attacker has a political vendetta against the nation in which you're located. I'm fairly convinced that the day will come when all data--in transit and at rest--will be encrypted. It's just a question of clearing some hurdles.