Encryption in data management should never be ignored, expert says

Any organization that manages large volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) may be tempted to cut corners on data encryption, but according to one expert, that's a dangerous mistake.

At the Computer Forensics Show this week, speaker James F. Dawson, former corporate forensic investigations expert with New York-based MetLife Inc., discussed the pain points of managing ESI in support of the insurance conglomerate's litigators.

While it's difficult to manage dozens of concurrent e-discovery matters for an enterprise with approximately 22 petabytes (or more than 22,500 terabytes) of data worldwide, Dawson said that's no excuse not to employ encryption, both at the file level and in the transport layer.

He said desktop encryption programs have evolved to the point where they are cheap to purchase and easy for the typical end user to work with after only minimal training.

In fact, Dawson's former organization practices what he preaches. "Any data that moves around, even within MetLife, gets encryption," he said, noting that transporting data from one business unit to another often means sending data across national or international borders.

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