The encryption fallacy
When encryption at rest won’t come to the rescue.
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In my prior posts on Cybersecurity for Executives, I explained how to protect data by blocking access from the Internet, on your internal network, via authentication and authorization strategies like segregation of duties and MFA. The chances are that at some point, you still may experience unwanted data exposure by someone who did it inadvertently or maliciously. Here is where encryption may or may not help you.
Encryption is a mechanism for turning sensitive data into something unreadable and unusable. Even if someone can see or access the data, it will be of no use to that person. They can’t read it or know what it says. The phrase encryption at rest refers to encrypting data before…
