Signal warns it could stop operating in US if anti-encryption bill passes – Mashable

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Signalis warning that an anti-encryption bill circulating in Congress could force the private messaging app to pull out of the US market.

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the free app, which offersend-to-end encryption, has seen a surge in traffic. But on Wednesday, the nonprofit behind the app published a blog post, raising the alarm around the EARN IT Act. At a time when more people than ever are benefiting from these (encryption) protections, the EARN IT bill proposed by the Senate Judiciary Committee threatens to put them at risk, Signal developer Joshua Lund wrote in the post.

Although the goal of the legislation, which has bipartisan support, is to stamp out online child exploitation, it does so by letting the US government regulate how internet companies should combat the problemeven if it means undermining the end-to-end encryption protecting your messages from snoops.

If the companies fail to do so, they risk losing legal immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which can shield them from lawsuits concerning objectionable or illegal content posted on their websites or apps.

Some large tech behemoths could hypothetically shoulder the enormous financial burden of handling hundreds of new lawsuits if they suddenly became responsible for the random things their users say, but it would not be possible for a small nonprofit like Signal to continue to operate within the United States, Lund wrote in the blog post.

Why Signal is concerned the bill will undermine end-to-end encryption is because it gives US Attorney General William Barr a major critic of encryption the power to dictate how internet companies fight online child exploitation. In recent months, Barr has been calling on Facebook to reverse a plan to expand end-to-end encryption across its services, on claims the technology is preventing law enforcement from tracking down criminals, including child sex offenders.

Companies should not deliberately design their systems to preclude any form of access to content, even for preventing or investigating the most serious crimes, Barr wrote to Facebook back in October. This puts our citizens and societies at risk by severely eroding a companys ability to detect and respond to illegal content and activity, such as child sexual exploitation and abuse, terrorism.

However, Signal says the efforts to undermine end-to-end encryption risk doing more harm to innocent users than actual criminals, who will simply choose other ways to mask their activities online. If easy-to-use software like Signal somehow became inaccessible, the security of millions of Americans (including elected officials and members of the armed forces) would be negatively affected, Lund added. Meanwhile, criminals would just continue to use widely available (but less convenient) software to jump through hoops and keep having encrypted conversations.

The EARN IT Act opposed by privacy advocates and tech lobbying groups but has received support from six Democratic US senators and four Republican senators.Our goal is to do this in a balanced way that doesnt overly inhibit innovation, but forcibly deals with child exploitation, US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said last month in announcing the legislation.

Simply put, tech companies need to do better, added Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut). Tech companies have an extraordinary special safeguard against legal liability, but that unique protection comes with a responsibility.

But other lawmakers say they're against the bill, citing its potential to be abused. "This terrible legislation is a Trojan horse to give Attorney General Barr and Donald Trump the power to control online speech and require government access to every aspect of Americans' lives," said Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) last month.

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Customer Personal Information Is the Number One Data Protection Priority nCipher 2020 Global Encryption Trends Study – Financial Post

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Organizations racing to protect sensitive data as it proliferates across cloud, IoT devices and 5G networks

MINNEAPOLIS & CAMBRIDGE, England As organizations accelerate digital initiatives such as cloud and the internet of things (IoT), and data volumes and types continue to rise, IT professionals cite protection of customer personal information as their number one priority, according to the 2020 Global Encryption Trends Study from the Ponemon Institute.

The Ponemon Institute has collaborated with nCipher Security, an Entrust Datacard company and world leader in hardware security modules (HSMs), on this multinational survey of how and why organizations deploy encryption, now in its fifteenth year.

Threats, drivers and priorities

For the first time, protecting consumer personal information is the top driver for deploying encryption (54% of respondents), outranking compliance, which ranked fourth (47%). Traditionally compliance with regulations was the top driver for deploying encryption, but has dropped in priority since 2017, indicating that encryption is transitioning from a requirement to a proactive choice to safeguard critical information.

Employee mistakes continue to be the biggest threat to sensitive data (54%) and significantly outweigh concerns over attacks by hackers (29%), or malicious insiders (20%). In contrast, the least significant threats cited include government eavesdropping (11%) and lawful data requests (12%).

Data discovery the number one challenge

With the proliferation of data from digital initiatives, cloud use, mobility, IoT devices and the advent of 5G networks, data discovery continues to be the biggest challenge in planning and executing a data encryption strategy, with 67% of respondents citing this as their top concern. And that is likely to increase, with a pandemic-driven surge in employees working remotely, using data at home, creating extra copies on personal devices and cloud storage.

Blockchain, quantum and adoption of new encryption technologies

The study indicates that 48% of organizations have adopted encryption strategies across their enterprises, up from 45% in 2019. With encryption deployment steadily growing, how are organizations looking ahead? In the near term, 60% of organizations plan to use blockchain, with cryptocurrency/wallets, asset transactions, identity, supply chain and smart contracts cited at the top use cases.

Other much-hyped technologies are not on IT organizations near-term radar. Most IT professionals see the mainstream adoption of multi-party computation at least five years away, with mainstream adoption of homomorphic encryption more than six years away, and quantum resistant algorithms over eight years out.

Trust, integrity, control

The use of hardware security modules (HSMs) continues to grow, with 48% of respondents deploying HSMs to provide a hardened, tamper-resistant environment with higher levels of trust, integrity and control for both data and applications. Organizations in Germany, the United States and Middle East are more likely to deploy HSMs, with Australia, Germany and the United States most likely to assign importance to HSMs as part of their organizations encryption or key management activities.

HSM usage is no longer limited to traditional use cases such as public key infrastructure (PKI), databases, application and network encryption (TLS/SSL). The demand for trusted encryption for new digital initiatives has driven significant HSM growth for big data encryption (up 17%) code signing (up 12%), IoT root of trust (up 10%) and document signing (up 7%). Additionally, 35% of respondents report using HSMs to secure access to public cloud applications.

The race to the cloud

Eighty-three percent of respondents report transferring sensitive data to the cloud, or planning to do so within the next 12 to 24 months, with organizations in the United States, Brazil, Germany, India and South Korea doing so most frequently.

In the next 12 months, respondents predict a significant increase in the ownership and operation of HSMs to generate and manage Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), and integration with a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) to manage keys and cryptographic operations. The survey found that the most important cloud encryption features are:

Consumers expect brands to keep their data safe from breaches and have their best interests at heart. The survey found that IT leaders are taking this seriously, with protection of consumer data cited as the top driver of encryption growth for the first time, says Dr Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of Ponemon Institute. Encryption use is at an all-time high with 48% of respondents this year saying their organization has an overall encryption plan applied consistently across the entire enterprise, and a further 39% having a limited plan or strategy applied to certain application and data types.

As the world goes digital, the impact of the global pandemic highlights how security and identity have become critical for organizations and individuals both at work and at home, says John Grimm vice president of strategy at nCipher Security. Organizations are under relentless pressure to deliver high security and seamless access protecting their customer data, business critical information and applications while ensuring business continuity. nCipher empowers customers by providing a high assurance security foundation that ensures the integrity and trustworthiness of their data, applications and intellectual property.

Other key trends include:

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2020 Global Encryption Trends Study methodology

The 2020 Global Encryption Trends Study, based on research by the Ponemon Institute, captures how organizations around the world are dealing with compliance, increased threats, and the implementation of encryption to protect their business critical information and applications. 6,457 IT professionals were surveyed across multiple industry sectors in 17 countries/regions: Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, the Middle East (which is a combination of respondents located in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), the Russian Federation, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam), South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States and two new regions for the first time, Netherlands and Sweden.

About nCipher Security

nCipher Security, an Entrust Datacard company, is a leader in the general-purpose hardware security module (HSM) market, empowering world-leading organizations by delivering trust, integrity and control to their business-critical information and applications. Todays fast-moving digital environment enhances customer satisfaction, gives competitive advantage and improves operational efficiency it also multiplies the security risks. Our cryptographic solutions secure emerging technologies such as cloud, IoT, blockchain, and digital payments and help meet new compliance mandates. We do this using our same proven technology that global organizations depend on today to protect against threats to their sensitive data, network communications and enterprise infrastructure. We deliver trust for your business-critical applications, ensure the integrity of your data and put you in complete control today, tomorrow, always. http://www.ncipher.com

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Worried about Zoom’s privacy problems? A guide to your video-conferencing options – The Guardian

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With offices and schools around the world temporarily shut amid the coronavirus crisis, the video platform Zoom has seen overnight success. But growing concerns over security across the platform have many consumers wondering about tech alternatives.

Privacy-minded consumers should consider video chat options carefully, said Arvind Narayanan, an associate computer science professor at Princeton University who has been outspoken about the security concerns surrounding Zoom.

There is a tradeoff between security and usability when picking a video-conferencing product, he said. Companies and schools should consider supporting multiple software options, configuring them securely, and educating their users about the risks.

Among the most important criteria for evaluating a video conferencing platform is end-to-end encryption of calls and data protection policies, said Charles Ragland, security engineer at Digital Shadows, a San Francisco-based security provider. Companies should be in compliance with privacy frameworks like Europes General Data Protection Regulation or Californias Consumer Privacy Act, he continued, and should also tell users what data is being collected and what third parties can access that data.

Here are some of your video-conferencing options for staying connected while sheltering in place:

The app is headquartered in San Jose, California, and was valued at $16bn when it went public in 2019. It quickly became the most popular option for meetings and other events moving online following shelter-in-place orders this year.

Pros: Its seamless to use attendees can join by a publicly shared link from anywhere, and joining does not require downloading any software. Its a great option if you are not discussing anything private or secure a virtual happy hour with friends, for example. The company has promised to fix issues with privacy and security, recently making default options more secure by requiring passwords to join meetings.

Cons: Zoom has had some glaring problems of privacy and security. Zoom bombings, in which hackers enter chat rooms to drop racist language and violent threats, persist. The company had to fix a bug that would have allowed hackers to take over a Zoom users Mac. It also had to change some of its policies after a Motherboard report found Zoom sends data from users of its iOS app to Facebook for advertising purposes.

The company also claimed its calls were encrypted, and then backtracked when it was proven wrong by a report in the Intercept. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado has requested responses from Zooms CEO, Eric Yuan, on privacy concerns and the FTC is being called to investigate the company.

Released in 2003, Skype is one of the longest-standing options for video chatting. It was bought by Microsoft in 2011 and is a free option for one-on-one or group video chats.

Pros: Skype is free, easy to use and widely known.

Cons: The maximum number of people who can join a Skype meeting is 50, making it a difficult option for larger organizations or big get-togethers.

Schools in New York are transitioning from Zoom to Microsoft Teams, a work-from-home collaboration platform. The app has been gaining traction: Teams saw its daily active user count rise more than 37% during just one week last month, from 32 million to 44 million around the world.

Pros: The video platform allows for 250 people in a meeting or up to 10,000 viewers through its presentation feature. Users can easily share files and chat during meetings as well as screen-share. It is free and integrates with Skype.

Cons: The platform is built primarily for businesses, or teams. People who want individual access can do so via Skype accounts, but it appears to require a download of Skype to join meetings unlike Zoom, which lets users attend meetings through their web browsers.

The built-in video call option for Apple products is an often overlooked option for group video chats, but a strong one for a number of reasons.

Pros: Apple is known for its strong encryption practices, meaning the company cannot see what you share during a call. FaceTime is also free for Apple users and does not require the download of an app.

Cons: FaceTime is only available for users who have Apple devices, has a maximum of 32 users per call, and does not allow people to join by link, making it hard to spread the word about your online event in advance.

Signal is an encrypted messaging app widely considered to be the worlds most secure and it is increasingly going mainstream. It allows for large group chats, but not group video calls.

Pros: Its encrypted and free to download.

Cons: Signal does not allow for group video chats, but it is useful for one-on-one video chats that require strong security and encryption.

The Cambridge, England-based video conferencing provider Starleaf was founded in 2008 and has grown in popularity as it pitches itself as a more secure video-conferencing alternative to Zoom. Call volume on StarLeaf has grown more than 1,000% compared to February 2020, the company said by email.

Pros: Starleaf is based in the UK and subject to local data privacy laws there. It also allows the consumer to choose where their user data is stored. It is used by NHS trusts in the UK.

Cons: Rather than the individual consumer, it targets organizations with 500+ employees a good option for your company but maybe not for happy hour with your friends. Starleaf only hosts up to 20 people per meeting and has a maximum of 46 minutes per meeting.

This video-conferencing platform was founded in 2003 by a student in France, and it has gained popularity as a more secure alternative to Zoom.

Pros: Jitsi Meet is free; open-source, meaning outside parties can check its security; and encrypted.

Cons: It allows a maximum of 75 participants in a chat (and a better experience with 35 or fewer).

A series of now debunked reports claimed Houseparty had been breached rumors the company is now claiming were part of a paid commercial smear by a rival.

Pros: This is perhaps the most fun video-conferencing app, with a number of games within the app, including trivia and drawing challenges.

Cons: It appears that when you start a house party, anyone in your contacts can join, but it is possible to lock a room once the people you want to be there are in it. It also has questionable privacy policies and collects a worrying amount of information, according to one security researcher.

For those of us who use Gmail, Google Hangouts is a seamless option for video chats. Up to 150 people can participate in a chat, but only 25 people can participate in a video call at once.

Pros: Its free and accessible.

Cons: Use it with the knowledge that Google will have even more of your data than it already does. A hangout can be joined via Gmail, the Hangouts app or a Chrome extension but it requires a Gmail account.

The California-based video conference platform BlueJeans is a good option for work teams and meetings that require a little more security than a free Zoom session.

Pros: Videos are encrypted by default. BlueJeans can be accessed via browser and does not require an account or the download of a new program.

Cons: It is not free BlueJeans costs $9.99 for a basic plan that allows meetings up to 50 people and $13.99 for its pro product, which allows up to 75 people per meeting, among other features.

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Foreign Spies Are Targeting Americans on Zoom and Other Video Chat Platforms, U.S. Intel Officials Say – TIME

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As much of the world works from home, an explosion of video conference calls has provided a playground not just for Zoombombers, phishermen and cybercriminals, but also for spies. Everyone from top business executives to government officials and scientists are using conferencing apps to stay in touch during the new coronavirus lockdowns and U.S. counterintelligence agencies have observed the espionage services of Russia, Iran, and North Korea attempting to spy on Americans video chats, three U.S. intelligence officials tell TIME.

But the cyberspies that have moved fastest and most aggressively during the pandemic, the intelligence officials say, have been Chinas. More than anyone else, the Chinese are interested in what American companies are doing, said one of the three. And that, in turn, has some U.S. counterintelligence officials worrying about one video conference platform in particular: Zoom. While the Chinese, Russians, and others are targeting virtually every tool Americans and others are using now that theyre forced to work from home, Zoom is an attractive target, especially for China, the intelligence officials and internet security researchers say.

An Apr. 3 report by The Citizen Lab, a research organization at the University of Toronto, found a number of shortcomings in Zooms security, including some that made it particularly vulnerable to China. It found that Zooms encryption scheme has significant weaknesses, including routing some encryption keys through Chinese servers, and that its ownership structure and reliance on Chinese labor could make Zoom responsive to pressure from Chinese authorities.

The U.S. intelligence officials stress there is no evidence that Zoom is cooperating with China or has been compromised by it, only that Zooms security measures leave gaps, some of which may make the application less secure than others. All three intelligence officials, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss ongoing operations with the media, said spies are using multiple applications to search government, corporate, and academic conversations for financial, personal, product development, research, and intellectual property information and leads. Federal experts have warned both government and private officials not to use video conference applications to discuss or exchange sensitive information. In a memo on Thursday, the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms told Senators not to use Zoom, according to one person who received the memo.

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Zoom has responded to the particular criticism of its security with multiple public efforts to address the concerns. After initially claiming that its platform provides end-to-end encryption for all its conversations, Zoom later said some encryption was in fact absent from some online messaging tools. While we never intended to deceive any of our customers, we recognize that there is a discrepancy between the commonly accepted definition of end-to-end encryption and how we were using it, wrote Oded Gal, the chief product officer for Zoom Video, in an April 1 blog post.

The subsequent investigation by The Citizen Lab found other weaknesses. During a test of a Zoom meeting with two users, one in the United States and one in Canada, the Citizen Labs researchers found that the key for conference encryption and decryption was sent to one of the participants from a Zoom server apparently located in Beijing. A scan located a total of five servers in China and 68 in the United States that apparently run the same Zoom server software as the Beijing server, their report says.

Zooms headquarters are in San Jose, California and it is listed on the NASDAQ. The companys main applications have been developed in part by three companies in China that all are named Ruanshi Software, the Citizen Lab study found. Two are owned by Zoom, and one is owned by a company called American Cloud Video Software Technology Co., Ltd. Zooms most recent SEC filing says the company employs at least 700 research and development employees in China, and job postings for Ruanshi Software in Suzhou, China include positions for C++ coders, Android and iOS app developers, and testing engineers, the Citizen Lab reported.

Zoom says it is not alone in having workers and servers in China, and says it has resolved the issue of encryption keys being routed through a server there. Zoom is not unique among its U.S. based teleconferencing peers in having a data center and employees in China; Zoom is perhaps just more transparent about it, the company said in a statement to TIME. Ruanshi is the Chinese name that Zoom uses to name our subsidiaries in China, the company said, and Our engineers are employed through these three subsidiaries and we are fully transparent about itall of this is disclosed in our filings. The company added that it has a number of documented controls and protections in place to protect data and prevent unauthorized access, including from Zoom employees. These controls are strictly enforced across the Company, regardless of jurisdiction.

In the wake of the Citizen Lab report, Zoom has taken other steps to reassure users about its commitment to security. On April 8, Alex Stamos, former chief security officer at Facebook and Yahoo, posted a note on Medium saying Zoom CEO Eric Yuan had called and asked if I would be interested in helping Zoom build up its security, privacy and safety capabilities as an outside consultant, and I readily agreed.

Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Michael Bennet of Colorado and Reps. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois have called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Zoom has taken the measures necessary to protect its users. Multiple state attorneys general already have begun looking into the company, Politico reported. And despite Zooms reassurances, some intelligence experts remain concerned about its vulnerabilities. Zooms links to China, regardless of what its CEO promises, create a persistent threat, former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency Michael Hayden, tells TIME.

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Encryption Key Management Market Analysis With Key Players, Applications, Trends And Forecasts To 2026 – Publicist360

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Office 365 Exchange Online Will Get Properly Encrypted Emails Through DANE and DNSSEC Support – WinBuzzer

Posted on April 9, 2020 by admin

Microsoft says it will add official support for the DNSSEC and DANE protocols through its Office 365 Exchange Online cloud email server. By integrating the two protocols, Microsoft is ensuring proper encryption and authentication for users.

DANE and DNSSEC are used to secure email. Properly securing email communication is a layered process and the larger number of supported protocols usually means the server is more protected.

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the underpinning framework for all email traffic. This allows the method for sending communication between serves. One problem with SMTP is its an aging protocol that does not support encryption.

Thats why the email industry has created STARTTLS (SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security) to add an encryption layer on top of standard SMTP. However, even this adaptation has some problems.

Firstly, email traffic does not move from sender to receiver directly. Instead, it moves through other email servers. Attackers are able to sit in wait on the sending path, posing as an old server to trick the STARTTLS encryption into downgrading to standard SMTP.

Secondly, an attack could intercept the email travel path and confuse it into thinking it is the receiving server. Even if the email is encrypted with STARTTLS, the sending server will never know the email was intercepted.

These are problems Microsofts Office 365 Exchange Online server has faced. DANE and DNSSEC address these issues and protect against the problems detailed above.

The support of the above standards, especially DNSSEC, will require investment and architecture changes to the Microsoft infrastructure an investment we believe is necessary to enhance protection for our customers, Microsoft engineers said in a blog post yesterday.

As this will require significant work, we will be releasing DANE and DNSSEC for SMTP in two phases, Microsoft said.

The first phase will include only outbound support (mail sent outbound from Exchange Online). We aim to enable this by the end of the calendar year 2020. The second phase will add inbound support for Exchange Online and we plan to enable that by the end of 2021.

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WhatsApp Implements New Restrictions on Message Forwarding to Limit the Spread of Misinformation – Social Media Today

Posted on April 9, 2020 by admin

WhatsApp has announced a new restriction on message forwarding as it seeks to combat the rise of misinformation campaigns flowing through the app.

As explained by WhatsApp:

"Last year we introduced users to the concept of messages that have been forwarded many times. These messages are labeled with double arrowsto indicate they did not originate from a close contact. In effect, these messages are less personal compared to typical messages sent on WhatsApp. We are now introducing a limit so that these messages can only be forwarded to one chat at a time."

The new restrictions build on the measures WhatsApp announced in April, when it ruled that messages which had been identified as highly forwarded - i.e. sent through a chain of five or more people -would only be able to be forwarded to a single person. WhatsApp also limited message forwarding to only five other users at a time in January last year.

There was a time when users were free to forward WhatsApp messages to 256 people if they wanted, but more recently, the app has increasingly become a weapon of choice for misinformation campaigns - which have been particularly damaging, at times, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Indeed, various reportshave singled out WhatsApp as a key source of such campaigns. According to a recent report in The Guardian, WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption, and massive reach, have made it an attractive option for misinformation initiatives. In the case of COVID-19, those campaigns have ranged from false "cures"to 5G signals amplifying the spread,to turning an indoor football pitch into a giant oven to cook lasagne for the needy (yes, seriously).

As per The Guardian:

"More traditional social networks such as Facebook and search engines such as Google have made substantial efforts to crack down on coronavirus misinformation, but messages on WhatsApp are encrypted and untraced, which means claims can be viewed by tens of millions of people without being fact-checked by authorities or news organizations. It's relatively easy for a Facebook moderator to remove a public post that breaks the services'rules, but the encryption WhatsApp uses means that no one other than those involved in a conversation can see the material shared and relies on individuals self-policing their conversations."

WhatsApp's reach makes is a significant concern in this respect.WhatsApp is by far the leading messaging app in many markets, and is particularly popular in developing regions.

Given this, the ability to access accurate information via WhatsApp is essential to limiting COVID-19's spread.

Worth noting too, Facebook is also testing similar limits on message forwarding in Messenger, which is also seeing similar increases in misinformation campaigns.

The ability to access accurate,timely information is critical right now, as people in all regions need to understand what they need to do to limit the spread of COVID-19, how they can protect themselves, and what's happening in regards to restrictions. Facebook has been working hard to combat misinformation on its platforms, but as noted, the encrypted messaging of WhatsApp makes that even more complex, limiting the capacity for Facebook to intervene.

As such, forwarding restrictions make sense, but it is concerning that WhatsApp has become a key option for such efforts. That could complicate all such mitigation efforts moving forward - while it may also bolster authorities that have been calling for Facebook to allow access into WhatsApp for investigations, as the app is increasingly used by criminal organizations to facilitate their operations.

The fact that WhatsApp has been forced to implement such measures aligns with this push, and could see Facebook forced to halt its plans to roll out encryption across all of its messaging services in future.

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Encryption is finally being used primarily to protect personal data rather than just for compliance – Help Net Security

Posted on April 8, 2020 by admin

As organizations accelerate digital initiatives such as cloud and the IoT, and data volumes and types continue to rise, IT professionals cite protection of customer personal information as their number one priority, according to nCipher Security and the Ponemon Institute.

For the first time, protecting consumer personal information is the top driver for deploying encryption (54% of respondents), outranking compliance, which ranked fourth (47%).

Traditionally compliance with regulations was the top driver for deploying encryption, but has dropped in priority since 2017, indicating that encryption is transitioning from a requirement to a proactive choice to safeguard critical information.

Organizations in Germany, the United States and Middle East are more likely to deploy HSMs, with Australia, Germany and the United States most likely to assign importance to HSMs as part of their organizations encryption or key management activities.

HSM usage is no longer limited to traditional use cases such as public key infrastructure (PKI), databases, application and network encryption (TLS/SSL).

The demand for trusted encryption for new digital initiatives has driven significant HSM growth for big data encryption (up 17%) code signing (up 12%), IoT root of trust (up 10%) and document signing (up 7%). Additionally, 35% of respondents report using HSMs to secure access to public cloud applications.

Encryption use is at an all-time high with 48% of respondents this year saying their organization has an overall encryption plan applied consistently across the entire enterprise, and a further 39% having a limited plan or strategy applied to certain application and data types.

Organizations are under relentless pressure to deliver high security and seamless access protecting their customer data, business critical information and applications while ensuring business continuity.

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