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Extract from article by Maria Korolov
Encryption can be costly and time consuming. It can also be sabotaged by users and difficult to integrate with legacy applications.
Furthermore, according to a recent 451 Research survey of senior security executives, government agencies seem to be fighting the previous war. Instead of protecting data from hackers who’ve already gotten in, they’re still focusing on keeping the bad guys out of their systems.
Among U.S. government respondents, the top category for increased spending in the next 12 months was network defenses — at 53 percent. By comparison, spending for data-at-rest defenses such as encryption ranked dead last, with just 37 percent planning to increase their spending.
Read the complete article at The encryption challenge