Governments and enterprises are more challenged than ever to protect their most valuable data, from a citizen’s social security number to highly classified data. But endpoint or network security can’t stop attackers, and much less a malevolent insider. The solution lies in protecting the data itself. Recent NIST and FIPS validations make groundbreaking Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE) technology available to government and enterprises. FPE “de-identifies” sensitive data, rendering it useless to attackers, while maintaining its usability and referential integrity for data processes and applications, and easily layering protection into decades-old legacy systems. Join HPE and (ISC)2 for an exploration of this topic in the 1st part of a three part series.