It is also ranked second among the security measures that companies want to develop, with only protection against malware scoring higher. However, encryptions systems are notably absent from the top-five most effective protection measures implemented by companies this year.
In effect, encryption is the final defensive barrier - even after a criminal has successfully forced his way into the company's IT infrastructure, this last hurdle makes it extremely difficult to get access to important information. However, most companies have not fully introduced encryption yet - just one-third of specialists (36%) use full disk encryption (also known as encryption of information arrays) and less than half of those specialists (44%) actually protect only critical information by this technology. As to encryption on external devices, e.g. USB drives; they are used by 32%.
The reasoning can be explained by the difficulties companies are facing when implementing data protection systems - 34% of respondents consider them as too complex. "Encryption incorporated into a comprehensive security system for corporate IT infrastructure can be an effective way out," said Nikolay Grebennikov, chief technology officer of Kaspersky Lab. Our business solutions can provide flexibility and easily managed protection for all corporate network endpoints."
The survey involved over 3300 IT specialists in 22 countries worldwide and was conducted in conjunction with Kaspersky Lab. The participants represented all business sizes: small, medium and enterprise.
