Security News > 2022 > November > Hardware-assisted encryption of data in use gets confidential
Reader Survey Results Data protection is a top priority for organisations tasked with protecting the integrity of not just their own data, but also the personally identifiable information they store and process on behalf of their business partners and customers.
Having established the type of organisations most of you commonly deal with, we asked Which technologies would your organization consider in beefing up protection for sensitive data it processes in data centres? This was a question that allowed multiple responses, reflecting the inevitability that it's not an either/or approach to cyber security, and could include the simultaneous use of multiple different tools for protecting the information that customers trust to a company for secure hosting and processing.
Encryption of data and applications is by far the single most deployed technology in this respect, deployed by almost 80 percent of the survey base, and 134 of the 177 respondents.
What's perhaps more interesting is that over 36 percent of the 177 people that responded have heard of Confidential Computing and felt that their organization would be interesting in evaluating its suitability to help them secure their data.
Almost as many, but not quite, as the 27.4 percent that told us their organisation would consider secure partitions within main system memory as a method of beefing up data protection in their data centres.
Which illustrates just how big a deal it is for organisations to protect the sensitive data they store and process in data centres at all stages of its journey.