Security experts urge users and enterprises to adopt full disk encryption and proper key management to secure sensitive data from accidental exposure. Concerns about data breaches and privacy violations would spur enterprises to adopt encryption and use it effectively, according to security experts. Organizations are beginning to assume that the firewall has already been compromised [...]

Enterprises are having trouble recovering business information because they are not properly managing the data encryption keys, which effectively lock them out of the critical data they sought to protect, Symantec found in a survey. Enterprises are using encryption in more places than ever, but they are not properly securing the keys or using consistent [...]

IT departments have access to the most sensitive data, even ahead of management and the board. In a survey of 500 IT security specialists, 65 per cent of respondents acknowledged that IT departments have the easiest access to sensitive data, while data access is restricted for other key staff, including CEOs. When asked who had [...]