SMEs lack encryption know-how
Given current cyber attacks, encrypting company and machine data both when being stored or being transmitted should actually be a matter of course. It’s small and medium-sized companies that struggle with this, however.
7 Apr 2018 Eduard HeilmayrShare
Small and medium-sized companies are often put off by the expenses involved in procuring the necessary technical infrastructure and the organizationally correct operation of encryption technologies. This is the finding of the BMWi study “
The authors of the encryption study commissioned by BMWi state that small and medium-sized companies “essentially have a high level of awareness of the importance of encryption in the company” (94%). But there is a problem with the implementation of such solutions. The most frequently mentioned obstacle is insufficient competency for the implementation (56%). The report finds particularly conspicuous the fact that although engineering and plant construction attain a high level of IT maturity, which means the SMEs in that sector are dependent on functional IT, the implementation status of encryption technologies in these companies is comparatively low.
Could this then perhaps be a good time to pick up some detailed information on encryption at the upcoming Hannover Fair? A first port of call could be the shared stand of the VDMA on the subject of Industrial Security (
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