"Outdated Cryptographic Protocols Put Vast Amounts of Network Traffic at Risk"
According to Quantum Xchange, cryptography is often taken for granted because it is rarely evaluated or checked, which could have disastrous consequences for businesses as attack surfaces expand, the cost of a data breach rises, and the age of quantum computing approaches. After examining over 200 terabytes of network traffic, or the total sum of all packets, for all connections, between all pairs, it was discovered that up to 80 percent had some defeatable flaw in its encryption, with 61 percent of the traffic being unencrypted. Unencrypted connections account for 56.5 percent of the single, bi-directional Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) connections examined, while encrypted connections account for 43.4 percent. Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) v3 are old, outdated cryptographic protocols still widely used today in industries such as healthcare and higher education. This article continues to discuss key findings from Quantum Xchange on the state of enterprise cryptography.
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