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Leo Guthart: Industry tackles data encrytion

A few federal employees and military officers got caught when the big Ashley Madison data breach came out last year. Bet they wish that data had been encrypted....

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

January 12, 2016 10:29 am

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Leo Guthart, chairman, Security First Corporation

A few federal employees and military officers got caught when the big Ashley Madison data breach came out last year. Bet they wish that data had been encrypted. Ditto for the IRS and Office of Personnel Management, both of which lost control of data on millions of people. Encryption is getting a new look by many chief information security officers now. Leo Guthart, chairman of Security First Corporation, Federal Drive with Tom Temin an industry update.

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