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Data encryption, which minimizes the likelihood of an information breach, has become a requirement for businesses of all sizes. It ensures that information is secure and protected, even if it falls into the wrong hands.
Data breaches can cause significant damage to a company’s brand and bottom line. Organizations which experience information loss face three main risks:
1. Negative brand impact. A breach may cause existing customers to lose confidence in your organization, and new prospects may seek another provider.
2. Legal issues. Various state and federal data privacy regulations, including the new Massachusetts law, mandate the protection of personal information.
3. Significant costs. The average cost to an organization for a single data breach is $6.6 million, according to the Ponemon Institute.
Just compromising 1,000 credit cards or social security numbers can cost your organization more than $200,000, according to a Ponemon Institute survey.
Benefits of Data Encryption
Why should organizations adopt encryption? There are five main reasons:
1. Data security. To protect against data breaches of sensitive credit card and social security numbers.
2. Confidentiality. To ensure that only legitimate users can access the data.
3. Data integrity. To ensure that data cannot be modified as it is transmitted (e.g., email messages).
4. Reputation preservation. To retain the confidence of your existing customers, suppliers and partners, and to avoid tarnishing your brand with prospects.
5. Cost savings. To prevent the attendant expense of a data breach, which can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per incident.
Given various state and federal regulations governing data privacy, and the attendant expense and reputational damage that a data breach causes, it’s clear that encryption is not only beneficial, but absolutely critical.
Managed Encryption Service
If data encryption is so critical, then why haven’t more organizations implemented it?
Most organizations have been slow to adopt encryption for three reasons:
1. it is hard to implement and maintain
2. it’s very expensive, and
3. it often requires that you change your behavior.
You know you need data encryption. But why encryption-as-a-service?
Doing data encryption yourself can add to management complexity and can be expensive to deploy at scale. It may also require users to consciously make decisions about what to encrypt and what not to encrypt – decisions which are better managed by policy, not by individual behavior.
Data encryption as a fully managed service moves the technology burden to experts who live and breathe it every day. These experts are your partners not only for the implementation, but also for maintenance and ongoing service and support.
What is Encryption? The concept behind data encryption is quite simple -- make the data illegible for everyone except those who are authorized to access it. Essentially an algorithm is used to scramble the data in such a way that it’s readable only to those who have a key to decrypt the encrypted information. Organizations can achieve complete data security and privacy by using encryption for disk drives, email encryption and mobile device encryption. |
Encryption-as-a-Service
Encryption-as-a-Service is easier, more convenient and less expensive.
Unlike most other data encryption solutions, the mindSHIFT offering is a fully managed service -- meaning your organization can quickly get up-and-running with data encryption and start complying with privacy laws within days – vs. the months-long process of up-front evaluation, procurement and implementation that is necessary to enable data encryption in-house.
With a fully managed service, you can adopt data encryption across your organization in two critical areas:
- disk encryption
- email encryption
With the mindSHIFT data encryption service, you can also leverage elements of mindSHIFT’s infrastructure, such as key servers with the Managed Disk Encryption Service.
Even better, you pay a single, affordable monthly fee for the service – no costly up-front fees for hardware and software.
Managed encryption services from mindSHIFT are easy, convenient, and affordable. Like other managed IT services, they provide a technology solution that works for your business.
mindSHIFT encryption services -- including full disk encryption -- are available as a complement to mindSHIFT’s comprehensive suite of managed IT service offerings.
mindSHIFT IT Management
Data encryption services are bundled with one or more mindSHIFT managed services, which provide Fortune 500-class IT service at small-business prices:
- Managed Desktop — everything you need, from hardware, software and system implementation, to proactive network monitoring, email, data backup, security and laptop recovery, with 24x7x365 Help Desk support. With mindSHIFT's managed desktop services, you get enterprise-quality desktop management at small- and medium-sized business prices.
- Server Management — anti-virus protection, patching, operating system management and preventative maintenance, as well as Virtualization-as-a-Service.
- Network Monitoring and Management — an end-to-end view of the performance and availability of your network.
- Legal Solutions — offers law firms a wide range of service options for the management and support of their technology infrastructures.
- Value-Added Services — a wide range of flexible services that address your IT needs, including hosting and Professional Services.
- Managed Hosting — managed dedicated hosting, managed virtual hosting and co-location options for Windows, IBM, UNIX and Linux servers.
Whatever level of service you choose, you gain the peace of mind that comes from always-there IT pros who find and fix your technology troubles…fast. So your organization keeps humming.
For more information on managed encryption services, contact mindSHIFT or call 877-227-5054.
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