Research Reports

"2008 Annual Study: Enterprise Encryption Trends" 
The Ponemon Institute

This 2008 study by the Ponemon Institute  focuses on identifying trends in encryption use, planning strategies, budgets, and deployment methodologies in enterprise IT. Access the reports (registration required):

• United Kingdom - "2008 Annual Study: U.K. Enterprise Encryption Trends"
• United States – "2008 Annual Study: U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trends"
• Australia and Germany - Published later in 2008

"Total Economic Impact of PGP Encryption Platform" – March 2008
Forrester Consulting

The PGP Encryption Platform provides a strategic enterprise encryption framework for shared user and key management, policy, and provisioning automated across multiple, integrated encryption applications.This study illustrates the financial impact of a pilot and implementation of the Encryption Platform.

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"IDC White Paper: Securing Laptops With Full Disk Encryption" – February 2008
Charles Kolodgy & Gerry Pintal

Businesses are increasingly deploying full disk encryption to lock down data on laptops and USB flash memory. This white paper details considerations for enterprise full disk encryption and how PGP Whole Disk Encryption meets these requirements.

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"2007 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach" – November 2007
"2007 Annual Study: U.K. Cost of a Data Breach" – February 2008
 The Ponemon Institute

Sponsored by PGP Corporation and Symantec Corporation, these new Ponemon Institute surveys document the high costs that result when companies in the United Kingdom and United States lose customer data. Among the key findings:

In the first study identifying the cost of a data breach in the U.K.:

• The average cost per lost customer record reached £47
• Lost business opportunities represented the most significant data breach cost component
• Breaches by third-party organizations such as outsourcers, contractors, consultants, and business partners were reported by 38% of respondents, costing 40% more than internal data breaches

In the third annual U.S. report:

• The average cost per lost customer record was $197 in 2007, compared to $182 in 2006
• Lost business opportunities represented the most significant component of the cost increase, rising 30% from 2006
• Breaches by third-party organizations such as outsourcers, contractors, consultants, and business partners were reported by 40% of respondents, up from 29% in 2006

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"The National Survey on Data Security Breach Notification"
The Ponemon Institute

This survey addresses the notification practices of U.S.–based organizations in business and government when a data security breach occurs and personal information is either lost or stolen. In accordance with state laws, organizations are required to notify victims of a breach in a timely fashion. Among the key findings: 

• About 23 million adults have been notified that their data was compromised or lost
• They reacted badly: 20% terminated their accounts immediately after notification
• Another 40% are considering termination

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"PGP Corporation is Well Positioned for the Emerging Key Management Market" – December 2007
Jon Oltsik, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)

How will organizations manage the increasing number of enterprise encryption applications? Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Jon Oltsik evaluates the needs of organizations and introduces the considerations for managing encryption keys. This ESG brief finds that PGP Corporation and the PGP Encryption Platform approach is well positioned to enable enterprises to meet the growing demands for key management to streamline operations and manage operations costs—today and in the future.

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"The Strategic Importance of Encryption" – November 2007
Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research

How should organizations approach the need to secure email communications? In this Bloor Research white paper, analyst Nigel Stanley analyzes options for securing email communications and recommends enterprise strategies. The paper covers these topics:

• Evaluating the threats to email within an organization and beyond
• Considerations for securing email based on risk and data value
• Comparing email encryption: gateway and endpoint solutions

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"Encryption and Key Management" – October 2007
Aberdeen Group

What distinguishes "best-in-class" organizations from the herd when it comes to encryption and key management? Year after year, these organizations:

• Continuously identify sensitive data because they can't protect what they don't know needs protecting
• Steadily reduce the number of exposed data incidents
• Suffer fewer instances of inaccessible data due to key mismanagement

How do they manage it? What are they doing that other organizations are not? Find out by reading a free white paper just published by Aberdeen Group.

"Information Security Study Wave 9 (Summer 2007)" – October 2007
TheInfoPro

According to the most recent study by TheInfoPro Inc., PGP Corporation continued as the "Lead Vendor" in use for both data encryption and email encryption software.

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