Security News > 2022 > June > Evaluating the use of encryption across the world’s top one million sites

A new report from security researcher and TLS expert Scott Helme, evaluates the use of encryption across the world's top one million sites over the last six months and reveals the need for a control plane to automate the management of machine identities in increasingly complex cloud environments.

2 has declined by 13% over the last six months, with v1.3 in use by almost 50% of sites - more than twice as many sites as v1.2.

Even though organizations are adopting stronger TLS protocols, they are failing to couple this with a move to stronger keys for TLS machine identities.

Slower, less secure RSA keys are still used by 39% of the top one million websites.

The data suggests that organizations are taking more steps to manage their machine identity environments.

"The recent boom in cloud migration means every business needs many more TLS machine identities to secure communication between devices, clouds, software, containers and APIs," said Kevin Bocek, VP, security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/06/30/encryption-top-sites/