Improving Regulatory Compliance with Encryption

Enterprises now routinely conduct operations outside the boundaries of the corporate firewall, rendering past-generation strategies for securing internal data strongholds ineffective. Customer and partner transactions often rely on Internet connectivity to corporate servers.

Enterprise staff members regularly transport sensitive information on notebook computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), smartphones, and a variety of storage media. Contractors working inside a facility sometimes have access to information residing on the network in various forms. The barriers between the inside and the outside of the corporation have become more porous and less absolute now that digital communication has become the primary means for communication and business operations.