In what countries do businesses have the most mature encryption strategies? Which ones are encryption strategy laggards? Do the countries that are lagging in encryption strategy maturity strategy also have weak encryption technologies? Or, do they actually have stronger encryption solutions? And what types of personal data are encrypted most often by organizations, and which are more rarely encrypted? Financial data? Healthcare data? Something else? In this episode I discuss these, and many more, worldwide encryption trends with Dr. Larry Ponemon, who has done many years of extensive research about encryption trends. Dr. Ponemon covers some of the major findings and points from his 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study sponsored by Thales. Plus, I provide five important and compelling reasons why putting in backdoors into encryption solutions, as many lawmakers still are trying to require, is a bad idea for security and privacy, and how it can also harm national economy.