In today’s world of cloud-based services and legislative forces that are upping noncompliance penalties with each passing day, the application of email encryption as a strategic tool is back on the front burner. Email encryption is nothing new, of course. Yet outside of the usual circles — finance, healthcare, government — widespread adoption of the practice hasn’t occurred. “Email encryption hasn’t taken off the way we expected,” said Bill Mann, SVP of business unit strategy for CA Technologies. “The business drivers … weren’t sufficiently painful.”