Security Slice: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt?

The state of California recently released its first annual data breach report and the results were striking.
According to Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, 1.4 million citizens would have been protected from breaches if businesses had encrypted their data.
Is encryption the key to data breach protection? Why don’t more organizations utilize it?
Listen to Episode 90 of our Security Slice podcast and hear Dwayne Melançon, Lamar Bailey and Tim Erlin discuss data protection and accessibility, the two major drawbacks to encryption, and why HIPAA compliance highlights the difficulties between security and portability.
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