AST July 2018 Magazine AST July 2018 Magazine Issue 24 | Page 65

Breaking
Volume 25 barriers with
encryption
July 2018 Edition
Unfortunately, as demonstrated
above, federal IT teams are continu-
ing to gravitate toward what they
already know (protect your end-
points!) and think data security is
overly complex and will introduce
performance challenges.
The respondents also revealed that
lack of budget (53%) is the top barrier
to implementing data security.
However, this way of thinking is 10+ years old
and modern methods of protecting data through
encryption have lower costs, very low perfor-
mance overhead and little configuration/manage-
ment headaches. le-down effect: data breaches are increasing so
federal agencies are increasing spending; and
agencies aren’t spending their money on the
right security solutions because they are appre-
hensive about changing legacy solutions.
Essentially, legacy thinking is extremely
prohibitive in creating a valid security
posture. Until there is a seismic shift in thinking and ac-
tion to implement change, breach statistics will
continue to rise.
Fortunately, for the first time, we found
that respondents recognize that the
defenses designed specifically for pro-
tecting data are the most effective tools
for doing so.
Data-in-motion and data-at-rest defens-
es were close to a tie at 78% and 77%
respectively as the most effective tools
for protecting data.
If we take a closer look, 84% are imple-
menting or planning to implement en-
cryption in the cloud within the next year – a mas-
sive jump from last year’s report (23%).
The results of this report create a clear trick-
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