S. Walter Packaging's CIO Toni Patti.
Chances are, encryption got short changed.
The conventional wisdom among IT executives is that encryption bogs down a system's processing speed. As a result, many companies don't use enough encryption to protect their vital communications. Users are left with a false sense of security. And history has shown repeatedly that designers underestimate their cryptosystems' vulnerabilities. Many IT managers don't realize that today's technology has eased the MIPS problems of encryption systems.