Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise

Encryption and hashing

Encryption and hashing technologies are different and will be explained to avoid confusion, as detailed analysis of both and how they fit into the data protection strategy of the enterprise, is covered in this section. Both encryption and hashing are typically what is thought of when data protection is discussed whether in storage, transit, or in use by applications. Usually, the immediate afterthought is, this is going to complicate business processes or break something important. The teams who have the most work to do, the developers and application teams, generally will have the most heartburn over potential changes to application code, batch jobs, and processes that make the business run. Encryption and hashing are both ...