Cost Savings and Policy Compliance with Encryption Management Solutions

Encryption solutions can hit two birds with one stone by providing cost savings for the enterprise and becoming policy compliant.

All enterprises have a refresh period where older machines must be disposed and replaced with new ones. Tracking, these machines from user location to disposal, is a security measure to assure data inside computers don’t fall into the wrong hands. RFID tags/readers, personnel training, media sanitization, etc is a high cost for security through tracking. Alternatively, to mitigate security risks, encryption can be implemented. Once computers fit the expiration category, a managed encryption solution can allow a remote wipe of these computers – rendering the machines’ data virtually useless.

Both tracking and encryption will require media sanitization. With encryption management, media sanitization does not have to be another incurred cost. Encryption management solutions can provide this process already. As an additional bonus this is compliant with federal standards including.

Moving beyond cost saving benefits, encryption solutions can also provide policy compliance with the specific enterprise. In theory, enterprises have manuals that provide a high level view of security compliance requirements. Encryption management solutions can be provisioned to meet the data at rest requirements.

The two benefits of cost savings and policy compliance are met with encryption management solutions.