You are an IT security specialist and have been asked by a client to explain how encryption can help protect its network and data. The client is an accounting firm and stores and handles sensitive information related to employees and clients of the firm. The firm recently experienced a cyber-attack that exposed sensitive client information to hackers that gained access to its network and file shares. Explain how encryption can help protect the firms data. Answer the following questions in the paper:
-What encryption methods are available to secure data at both rest
and in transit on the network.
-Discuss why properly deploying and utilizing encryption can be
challenging for an organization or company. How would you
minimize some of these challenges?
-Research a case where data was compromised to due lack of or
ineffective encryption methods. Describe how the breach could
have been avoided.
