We live in an information age where customers demand access to your organisations services anytime, from anywhere and via almost any medium. Invariably services are on-line and if you fail to provide them, your competitors will. The rate of change and innovation is unprecedented.
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To date the deployment of encryption services and the techniques used to achieve interoperability and technical standards have always lagged behind what businesses have actually needed, or for that matter, what regulators or certain schemes are enforcing.
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This second decade since the Millennium is seeing a major uplift in the use of cryptography in existing and new business systems. This uplift is likely to be disproportionately greater than the actual increase in business transaction volumes.
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There has been a substantial increase in the use of cryptographic techniques and Hardware Security Modules (HSM's) in larger commercial enterprises, and banks in particular, since the upsurge of online services in the late 1990's. Invariably this has been undertaken on a project basis, with each project having its own goals and initial budget.
