Give up on trying to do it all yourself and leave it to the experts.
Encryption is a core tenet for cybersecurity. Attackers can’t steal data that’s encrypted. No matter what Hollywood says, there’s no way for a hacker to get through one layer of good encryption, much less “several layers of encryption.”
But encryption comes with a lot of challenges.
In a survey last fall by the Cyber Security Competency Group, 66 percent of respondents said that the management of encryption keys was either a “big” or “medium” challenge for their companies.
