"Cloud Encryption Options - Good for Compliance, Not Great for Security"

Guest Editor: Today's post is from David Hazar. David is a security engineer focusing on cloud security architecture, application security, and security training. In this post, David will take a look at the encryption options for applications hosted in the cloud.Over the last decade, due to new compliance requirements or contractual obligations, many, if not most, companies have been implementing encryption to better protect the sensitive data they are storing and to avoid having to report a breach if an employee loses a laptop or if backup media is lost in the mail. One of the more popular ways of adding this additional protection is to implement some form of volume-based, container-based, or whole-disk encryption. It would be difficult to argue that there is an easier, more cost-effective method to achieve compliance than to utilize this type of encryption. Also, although there are potential weaknesses to some implementations of the technology, it is pretty ...

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