2020 Global Encryption Trends Study

PONEMON INSTITUTE PRESENTS THE FINDINGS OF THE 2020 GLOBAL ENCRYPTION TRENDS STUDY

The purpose of this research is to examine how the use of encryption has evolved over the past 15 years and the impact of this technology on the security posture of organizations. The first encryption trends study was conducted in 2005 for a US sample of respondents.

Since then we have expanded the scope of the research to include respondents in all regions of the world.

This year, 48 percent of respondents say their organizations have an overall encryption plan that is applied consistently across the entire enterprise and 39 percent say they have a limited encryption plan or strategy that is applied to certain applications and data types, a slight decrease from last year.