Security News > 2021 > June > Higher encryption adoption driven by rising data breach threats

Security and IT professionals in the Middle East are demonstrating a rising desire to secure critical applications and data, driving higher encryption adoption for newer use cases like containers and IoT platforms, as well as for email and private cloud infrastructures.

Encryption adoption for private cloud infrastructure is up.

The adoption of encryption for private cloud infrastructure is up 8% over the past two years and Bring Your Own Key management support was cited an important feature of cloud encryption solutions by 42%, making this the 4th straight year that this was above the global average.

While encryption is the foundation of data protection, just 29% of Middle East companies surveyed indicate that they have a consistently applied encryption plan/strategy - well below this year's global average of 50%. At the same time, 59% of these organizations report that they have experienced a data breach, the 2nd highest rate worldwide and well ahead of the global average of 44%. The growing role of hardware security modules.

The fastest-growing use cases are document signing at 21% and Cloud Access Security Brokers for encryption key management at 32%. Looking to the future, respondent organizations anticipate greater use of HSMs over the next 12 months.

"A holistic encryption approach can help organizations limit liability from breaches or inadvertent disclosure and help to comply with data privacy regulations while they focus on protecting financial records and payments-related data from the risks of hackers and temporary or contract workers. The region continues to have one of the highest HSM adoption rates, demonstrating a desire for greater control over critical applications and data and security professionals view HSMs as becoming more important, particularly for use cases like key management root of trust, code signing and for use with privileged access and secrets management solutions."

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