Study: Employee data not encrypted to level of customer data Employee Data More Exposed Than Customer Data New encryption report shows midsized organizations fail to encrypt all the sensitive things -- including their own intellectual property and financial data. Midsized companies do a better job protecting their customer information than that of their own employees or their internal intellectual property, a new study found. Nearly one-third of companies and organizations with 100- to 2,000 employees in the US, Canada, India, Australia, Japan, and Malaysia, say they don't regularly encrypt their employees' bank information, and 43% don't always encrypt human resources files. Nearly half say they don't routinely encrypt employee health information, according to the Vanson Bourne survey conducted on behalf of security vendor Sophos. And at a time when the US and other governments are trying to nip cyber espionage for economic gain in the bud via talks wi...
