3 challenges in combatting encryption sprawl

'Now that cloud-based services are so widely used, this sprawl can only worsen'

Encryption is on everyones radar lately, and not just due to worries over government surveillance.

Ever-changing data legislation and industry regulation are driving this renewed interest, along with the obvious desires to avoid data breaches and identity theft.

Google recently announced that about 65% of the messages sent by its Gmail users are encrypted while delivered, up from 39% in December 2013.

Now, encryption is not exactly the new kid on the block. It was once the sole province of financial institutions and governments, but the Internet changed all this.

>See also:The intricacies of Bring Your Own Encryption (BYOE)

Computers that had once been safe due to their isolation were now connected and exposed.

SSL/TLS was universally adopted to protect data, and that protection has extended past the obvious applications like eCommerce to organisations IT systems.

This has resulted in not just a heightened level of security but heightened complexity and cost as well.

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3 challenges in combatting encryption sprawl