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Beware the Blind Spots: The Overlooked Vulnerabilities Endangering Your Data Security
- Organizations invest millions in vast security infrastructures, but data breaches are still occurring, declaring that security systems are outdated and riddled with blind spots so glaring that cybercriminals are walking right through them.
- Current encryption solutions often assumed to provide continuous data protection do not, leaving gaps in protection when data is in use or moving between stages in the lifecycle.
- Other methods of protecting data designed to cover the gaps that traditional encryption leaves exposed are suitable for specific use case scenarios but do not assure data security throughout its lifecycle.
- Confidential computing is another data protection method but has inherent performance overheads, given its complex hardware and integration requirements. More importantly, secure enclaves can be breached.
- Data access control and monitoring solutions are inadequate to address today's attacks, such as limiting access controls' granularity in permission and restricting monitoring tools to IT users, creating data silos and hindering cross-team collaboration.
- Thorough data protection requires data to be encrypted during its entire lifecycle. What businesses need is continuous encryption – Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a game-changing technology, often considered the holy grail of data protection.
- FHE can protect data from even the most sophisticated threats, closing the dangerous data gaps left by data-in-transit and data-at-rest encryption. If companies aren't continuously encrypting data, they have encryption gaps.
- FHE has traditionally been hindered by excessive computational costs, but recent breakthroughs make it performant, massively scalable, and a viable solution for businesses, and they no longer have to choose between security and utility.
- The blind spots in data security are real and can be costly. It's time to wake-up, face the threat head-on, and embrace the advanced encryption technologies that will genuinely secure the future.
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