Re: Encryption in pg_dump

Paul Förster <paul(dot)foerster(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> Hi Bruce,
>
>> On 22. Jul, 2020, at 20:55, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know why we are getting so many requests for encrypting
>> dumps all of a sudden?
>
> probably because a) people don't read past posts and b) more and more IT heads decide that *everything*, be it internal to the company or not, has to be encrypted.
>

Yes, I think the IT heads issue is the primary driver - combined with
very poor understanding of information security at senior levels and a
huge growth of poor quality and 'snake oil salesmen' in the IT security space
due to the amount of money ill informed senior managers are throwing at
what they think is a technical problem which usually is in fact a
business process problem.

--
Tim Cross