Paul Meadowcroft is Enterprise and Government Business Unit Director for the Information Systems security activities at Thales. Paul has more than 15 years experience in information security. Paul is an expert on a wide range of information security topics, including the use of cryptography, key management, public key infrastructures and payment systems. He can be reached at paul.meadowcroft@thales-esecurity.com.
To date, it has largely been banks and governments that have taken advantage of encryption to secure information. However, almost every organization in every industry handles information that someone somewhere regards as being private or valuable. There is an implicit, and increasingly explicit, obligation to protect it. Some of the advantages of encrypting data include […]