The data illustrates the leading drivers of enterprise encryption technology solutions worldwide in FY2016 and FY2017. As of January 2018, in FY2017, 52% of respondents indicated that the protection of enterprise intellectual property was one of the key drivers of encryption technology solutions.
To protect information against specific, identified threats | 49 | 54 |
To protect enterprise intellectual property | 51 | 52 |
To protect customer personal information | 49 | 50 |
To comply with external privacy or data security regulations and requirement | 55 | 49 |
To limit liability from breaches or inadvertent disclosure | 37 | 32 |
To reduce the scope of compliance audits | 30 | 29 |
To comply with internal policies | 19 | 21 |
To avoid public disclosure after a data breach occurs | 10 | 14 |