SALT LAKE CITY – August 17, 2017 – Venafi®, the leading provider of machine identity protection, today announced the results of a survey of 296 IT security professionals on encryption backdoors. The survey was conducted July 22-27, 2017 at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
According to the survey, the majority of IT security professionals believe encryption backdoors are ineffective and potentially dangerous, with 91 percent saying cybercriminals could take advantage of government-mandated encryption backdoors. In addition, 72 percent of the respondents do not believe encryption backdoors would make their nations safer from terrorists.