Stats like these should make protective measures such as data encryption a no-brainer. By transforming plain text data into an unreadable format, data encryption serves to protect your organization’s most sensitive information, whether at rest or in transit. The data explosion is also accelerating thanks to growth in AI and large language models (LLMs), which require huge volumes of potentially sensitive data to train. The data explosion is also accelerating thanks to growth in AI and large language models (LLMs), which require huge volumes of potentially sensitive data to train. Carriers either may not insure your business if it doesn’t deploy strong data encryption, or else increase premiums.