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."

Comments

Re:Dont blame IT

[MortenMW]

+1

Time, money and people could solve it

Re:Use systems that users dont need to think about

[Spazmania]

With the right software, it is possible to protect the fixed disks of all PCs in the enterprise

Unless of course you actually want to use your computer. Then you discover how painfully slow it is. How it happily encrypts your USB drive too, rendering it useless. You take a power point presentation with you and look like a fool in front of your customers because it's encrypted and they can't display it on the projector from you thumb drive.

Seriously, the windows software-based hard disk encryption solutions right now are total POS.