Townsend Security, a leading authority in data privacy, today published “2016 Encryption Key Management Industry Perspectives & Trends.” The free ebook focuses on giving enterprises a better understanding on how to minimize business risk by protecting private data with encryption and key management.

The evolution of computing and delivery platforms continues at a rapid pace and this presents substantial challenges as organizations attempt to deploy data protection solutions. Security professionals know that encryption and key management are crucial to their security strategy - which is often their biggest challenge.

While encryption is a core security requirement, many organizations are lagging in regards to key management. Key management no longer needs to be expensive or difficult, as it has been in previous years. The most recent ebook from Townsend Security, “2016 Encryption Key Management Industry Perspectives & Trends”, discusses:

• Clear, actionable takeaways for enterprises that need to protect sensitive data
• How to minimize business risk by protecting private data
• Top 10 requirements in an encryption key manager
• How to overcome challenges associated with multiplatform environments, including the cloud
• Answers to common encryption and key management questions, including best practices, cyber insurance, and meeting compliance requirements (PCI DSS, HIPAA, etc.)  

“Failing to protect encryption keys continues to be a common cause of security audit failures and demonstrates a lack of commitment to reasonable security controls,” said Patrick Townsend, Founder & CEO, Townsend Security. “Our latest ebook offers insight and guidance to organizations tasked with protecting their most private data.”

In addition to practical guidance, the new ebook provides perspectives on the state of the encryption key management market and developing trends. The encryption and key management market is subject to rapid technological and vendor changes, and security architects, CISOs, and CIOs will find this new ebook helpful in developing key management vendor and product strategies.

Download the “2016 Encryption Key Management Industry Perspectives & Trends” now.