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Only 27% of Organizations Use Encryption
An anonymous reader writes "According to a Check Point survey of 224 IT and security administrators, over 40% of businesses in the last year have more remote users connecting to the corporate network from home or when traveling, compared to 2008. The clear majority (77%) of businesses have up to a quarter of their total workforce consisting of regular remote users. Yet, regardless of the growth in remote users, just 27% of respondents say their companies currently use hard disk encryption to protect sensitive data on corporate endpoints. In addition, only 9% of businesses surveyed use encryption for removable storage devices, such as USB flash drives. A more mobile workforce carrying large amounts of data on portable devices leaves confidential corporate data vulnerable to loss, theft and interception."
This isn't surprising. This is just what happens when using Windows, which doesn't enforce security over typical remote desktop connections. You have to resort to third-party (often very expensive!) solutions to get such basic functionality.
On the other hand, OpenSSH is pretty universal in the UNIX and Linux worlds now. Virtually nobody has used rsh for nearly 20 years. So anyone connecting remotely via X-over-SSH automatically gets at least some degree of encryption.
Organizations with remote users need to start moving away from Windows. With so many viable open source alternatives, virtually all of which handle remote users in a much more secure manner, it's time to start doing things right.
For typical modern hard disk and CPU speeds, it takes about a single whole core to encrypt/decrypt the data at full bandwidth.
Ehh.. Say what? What "full bandwidth" what "single whole core"? You make no sense.
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