Why is ‘bring your own encryption’ (BYOE) important?

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: James Staten.

BYOE, or bring your own encryption, is a cloud computing security model that allows cloud services customers to use their own encryption software and manage their own encryption keys. It works by allowing customers to deploy a virtualized instance of their own encryption software alongside the business application they are hosting in the cloud. The business application is configured so that all its data is processed by the encryption application, which then writes the ciphertext version of the data to the cloud service provider’s physical data store. 

In this Ask the Expert, James Staten, an analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc., discusses with SearchCIO Senior Features Writer Karen Goulart why this model is important for enterprises today, the skills required to employ BYOE and when the trend will peak…

One of the reasons why encryption is such a big topic right now is because what we used to take for granted is no longer the case — that if you put data in a data center, it was secure, even from the government. Now the assumption is the government gets access to all of it. Companies that are concerned about that risk need to take control of their own destiny and that is where bring your own encryption is so important…

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