Grazed from Allied Market Research.
Global Encryption Software Market Report, published by Allied Market Research, forecasts that the global market is expected to garner $2.5 billion by 2021, registering a CAGR of 14.2% during the period 2016 – 2022. North America is expected to be the leading contributor during the forecast period, owing to higher adoption of end-point security solutions among organizations and prevalence of higher data protection & compliance regulations. However, Asia-Pacific region is anticipated to grow at the fastest rate, due to the growing penetration of cloud computing and increasing workforce mobility.
The encryption software market by usage comprises encryption for data-at-rest and encryption for data-in-transit. In 2014, data-at-rest encryption software segment accounted for approximately 93.4% of the total encryption software market by value. For data-at-rest, the two most commonly used encryption software methods include full disk encryption (FDE) and file level encryption (FLE), with full disk encryption being the most widely deployed method for protecting data against theft and ensuring compliance with data privacy and data breach notification laws. FDE is preferred over the FLE primarily due to the two major advantages, viz. ease of deployment and management, and complete security.