{"id":7383,"date":"2017-05-23T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2017-04-15T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T01:32:51","slug":"enterprise-data-encryption-businesses-using-encryption-as-tool-to-protect-their-cloud-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/enterprise-data-encryption-businesses-using-encryption-as-tool-to-protect-their-cloud-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Data Encryption: Businesses Using Encryption as Tool to Protect their Cloud Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One tactic to ease worries about storing data in the cloud is to encrypt data.<a href=\"http:\/\/dtr.thalesesecurity.com\/\"> A study by the Ponemon Institute for Thales Security <\/a>found that 41 percent of businesses are consistently applying encryption across their organization.<\/p>\n<p>The report found that two-thirds of businesses encrypt\u00a0their data for the cloud using either one of these two methods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encrypt the data on-premise before sending to the cloud<\/li>\n<li>Encrypt the data in the cloud using keys that were generated on-premise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other third of businesses doing encryption rely on their cloud provider to handle encryption for them.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons why companies say that they use encryption for their data include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compliance (55 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Protection of Intellectual Property (51 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Customer Information Protection (49 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Protection from External Threats (49 percent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponemon.org\/management\">Dr. Larry Ponemon<\/a>, chairman and founder of The Ponemon Institute, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cloud-adoption-and-escalating-threats-accelerate-encryption-deployments-finds-latest-thales-global-encryption-study-300439272.html\">said that<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;the stakes are too high for organizations to stand by and wait for an attack to happen to them before introducing a sophisticated data protection strategy. 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